After knowing that it would take a while before formal talks could begin, Lawrence and his delegation immediately got busy. After receiving permission, the doctor immediately started free clinic work at the door of the big house, while agricultural technicians and mineral geological exploration personnel were waiting for the minotaurs.
Accompanied by the company, we went to the surrounding areas and began to conduct mineral surveys, as well as agricultural water and soil conditions surveys.
As the leader of the mission, Lawrence naturally did not take any time off. Instead, he chatted with several tauren leaders about the situation of the surrounding tribes. As they talked, several people talked about the ancient ruins they had discovered.
"Are you talking about those stone roads and docks?" As a shaman, the white-haired tauren thought about it after hearing Lawrence's inquiry and then said, "If my inference is correct, these stone roads and piers
The pier should be a product of the same era as the buildings in the hilly area."
"Hillland?" Lawrence subconsciously raised his head and looked through the window at the rolling hills behind the village, and then keenly discovered that there was something obviously wrong with the vegetation on the hills behind the tribal buildings. Because the normal species of tropical rainforest trees should be
There are a lot of them, and they look very messy. However, the vegetation behind this tribe seems a bit too neat and uniform, and it looks more like the result of some manual intervention.
"You also discovered it." The tauren shaman said after Lawrence withdrew his gaze, "The hilly area behind us is probably where someone has built a plantation of certain crops before, but I don't know why they ended up there.
Abandon this land and let everything be submerged in the tropical rain forest again."
"Don't you know the origin of these things?" Lawrence felt a little curious after hearing what the tauren shaman said, because this group of tauren have been in this place for hundreds of years, and theoretically they should know everything around them.
right.
"Of course I don't know." A smile appeared on the face of the tauren shaman, "These things have been standing here for a long time before we came here. We also discovered this while exploring a little bit after discovering this hilly area.
A series of important traces left by those who came before.”
"For example, there is a ruins that looks like a temple in the middle of these hills. If you are interested, we can accompany you to have a look there later -" Finally, the tauren shaman said.
A piece of news that interested Lawrence.
In this world, temples are the easiest buildings to use to judge civilization, because different temples have different characteristics. Even an abandoned temple can allow future generations to pass through the temple as long as it is not destroyed too much.
The lines, pictures, sculptures and other clues made it easy to judge what the previous civilization was here. So after eating a little something, Lawrence and Nora walked towards the interior of the hills under the leadership of a tribal hunter.
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The security of this hilly area is very high, because these tauren have regarded the hilly area as their heartland since they settled here. Therefore, whenever they have time, they will send a large number of people into the hilly area to eliminate everything that may harm them.
Various threatening creatures.
So when they followed a path deeper into the hills, they saw nothing except the scattered plants on the slopes on both sides and the occasional sheep or rabbit. There were no beasts, no goblins, and no goblins.
Imagining those ferocious and dangerous extraordinary creatures makes the whole journey feel like a tourist.
Perhaps because she was extremely bored and the surroundings were not very dangerous, Nora did not stay with Lawrence as cautiously as she did when entering certain dangerous areas, but flew around happily, just like a
Like a happy bird, it flies around everywhere to have fun.
Of course, Nora still has basic vigilance. For example, wherever she flies, she is satisfied that she can see Lawrence and Lawrence can also see herself. Both parties will never let the other disappear from their eyes. Moreover, from now on
On the other hand, Nora's flying around is also a method of patrolling.
"Brother, look what is this?" The little doll Nora flew to a tree and picked something, then lowered her head and looked at it, and then flew towards Lawrence as fast as she could. While flying,
He was still calling Lawrence's name, and at the same time waving the hand that was holding a pile of things he had just picked from the tree.
"Let me see." When Nora flew in front of Lawrence and opened her hands like a treasure, Lawrence lowered his head and looked at the open hands of the little doll. As a result, he saw that she was as white and semi-white as a jade carving.
There is a thin branch placed in the transparent palm, and on the top of the branch are more than a dozen thumb-sized, yellow-green olive-shaped leaves.
"Is this tea?" Lawrence took the leaves and looked at them first, then held them up under his nose and smelled them before asking a question, because these leaves did look similar to the popular beverage tea, but the smell was the same.
The difference between real tea leaves is quite big. Not only does it not have much tea aroma, but it smells strangely sour and astringent.
"Ah, this thing!" Looking at the branch Lawrence was holding and the leaves on the branch, the tauren hunter who was leading the way thought for a moment and said, "We tauren all call this thing a small thing.
Bitter leaves are usually made into soup to drink by ourselves or mashed and mixed into the feed to be fed to cattle and sheep. After eating, it can cure some diseases of us and the animals we raise, such as poor diet and lack of appetite, such as
Some minor headaches and brain fever.”
At this point, the tauren hunter suddenly slapped his forehead as if he remembered something. The intensity made Lawrence a little worried that he would give himself a concussion. But fortunately, things did not turn out like him.
Changes occurred as imagined, and the tauren hunter quickly revealed some of the things he knew.
"Actually, the earliest humans we met were what we called little bitter leaves, which they called tea." The tauren told Lawrence a piece of news that shocked him. "But in the end, after a lot of fiddling, they
He gave up on this kind of thing and never mentioned it to us again.”
"I think it may be because these tea leaves don't taste right." After Nora heard that this thing was edible, she picked off two leaves from the branches and put them in her mouth to chew. After chewing, she probably understood this.
Why does tea that should have the same properties as the tea we usually drink not have a reputation at all?
"What's going on?" Lawrence also felt very strange. After all, he had asked the tauren before if they had anything to sell here. The tauren didn't tell him that there was tea here, but insisted that the tauren wanted to hide the tea.
If it exists, it seems obviously unreasonable to ask them to come over so directly.
"These tea leaves are bitter and astringent. I can guarantee you 100% that if this thing is made into tea, the brewed tea will make human tongue numb after just two or three sips."
Nora's answer also made Lawrence realize why the tauren did what they did, because although this thing is tea, it is not suitable for human consumption at all. Therefore, the humans who discovered this batch of tea trees before did not take this thing seriously at all.
thing, and the tauren didn't take this kind of thing seriously either. So when Lawrence asked the tauren what valuable products they had in their territory, the tauren didn't think at all of these tea trees that were spread throughout the hilly areas.
"It's such an empty joy." Lawrence shook his head helplessly. Originally, he thought he could make money by selling tea after discovering the tea tree in the morning, but now it seems that this plan will not work.