The joy brought about by the arrival of the tribe with pottery and salt lasted for a while, then faded a lot and was replaced by some sadness.
Their sorrow comes from the few furs in the cave.
Huang Guo felt very uncomfortable looking at the furs in the cave. These furs could not be exchanged for much delicious salt.
Even if the leader comes back, there is still nothing he can do.
It is really uncomfortable to know that the other party has a lot of salt, but our tribe has no way to get it.
There were people from that tribe talking outside. Huang Guo walked out of the cave and was suddenly surprised to find that people from this tribe were opening several animal skin bags and taking out the contents one by one.
What surprised and puzzled her was that what the people of this tribe took out were not precious pottery or salt, but a large number of extremely ordinary stones!
Huang Guo took a closer look and confirmed that these stones were very common ones, which made her even more puzzled.
Why do the people of this tribe carry these stones with them? And why do they cherish them so much?
Could it be their weapons for self-defense?
When Huang Guo thought of this, he suddenly felt that he had seen through the truth.
However, as the black leader started giggling and jumping, Huang Guo's eyes widened, and then he shook his head violently.
She felt that she must have mistaken the leader's meaning.
This ubiquitous stone is used in exchange for precious pottery and salt?
How is this possible!
Huang Guo left, and she thought it would be better to wait until the leader came back and let him negotiate with the leader.
After all, the leader is well-informed and can better understand what the leader means.
After looking for wild vegetables for a while, Huang Guo looked at the small stone at his feet. After hesitating for a while, he finally picked up the stone and walked towards the person sitting there to rest.
Although he knew that in all likelihood he had misunderstood the meaning, Huang Guo still wanted to give it a try. After all, there were not many furs left in his tribe.
With the mentality of giving it a try, she came to Mao and handed over the stone in her hand with some hesitation.
She was ready to be rejected, but she didn't expect that this person actually took it, held it in his hand, and compared it carefully with the stones around her.
While Huang Guo was waiting a little nervously, he compared the stones for a while, confirmed that this was a stone that had not been collected, and put the stone into the pile of stones.
Then he smiled and scooped up a spoon full of salt from a salt jar, and told Huang Guo that this stone could be exchanged for this spoonful of salt.
Huang Guo came out of the cave in a daze, holding the already empty salt jar.
Without hesitation, Mao slowly poured a spoonful of salt in.
The confused Huang Guo returned to the cave holding the salt shaker.
Several primitive women who stayed in the tribe placed the salt jar on the ground, lay on the ground and formed a circle, sticking out their buttocks and stretching their heads, and took turns looking into the salt jar.
All with inquiry and disbelief.
After doing this for a while, Huang Guo put his hand into the salt shaker, pinched out a little salt and put it into his mouth.
The familiar smell came and her eyes immediately widened.
Is this really salt?
Stones can really be exchanged for salt!
After being confused and surprised, Huang Guo and the other adults ran out like the wind to look for stones.
No matter why the people of this tribe suddenly had to exchange stones for salt, this is excellent news for their tribe.
Huang Guo, who was a little thin, became extremely strong at this time. She looked down on small stones, so she directly found a stone that was bigger than her butt, picked it up, and quickly came to Mao and the others.
A small piece of stone like that can be exchanged for a spoonful of salt. Wouldn't such a large piece of stone be exchanged for several spoons of salt?
The more she thought about it, the more energetic she became. After a long distance, she actually didn't stop at all. She carried the stone in front of Mao and put it down. Only then did she have time to pay attention to the animal skin falling off her body.
Mao's eyes stayed on Huang Guo for a while before moving to the stone.
Then he shook his head.
Of course, it's not that Huang Guo was tidying up the animal skins too quickly, but that they already have this kind of stone.
He found a fist-sized stone from the pile of stones and placed it on the large stone that Huang Guo had brought, indicating that he already had it and could not replace it.
Huang Guo was confused. She didn't understand that she had just bought a small one in exchange for a spoonful of salt, but now that she had brought a large one, she couldn't exchange it.
She stretched out her hand and pointed at the small stone, and then pointed at the big stone she had moved, and said in a hurried manner, meaning that the one she had found was much better than the smaller one.
Shang and Mao have seen similar things happen many times. Almost every tribe they visited, similar things would happen.
After a lot of talking and effort, Mao finally made Huang Guo understand that only the stones that were not there could be used to exchange for salt.
Moreover, the same type of stone can only be replaced once, regardless of the size of the stone.
Huang Guo, who understood the meaning, and the other people who came over enthusiastically with stones in their arms looked a little disappointed, as if they saw a lot of delicious salt and left them.
However, this disappointment did not last long, and I went to look for stones again.
In any case, it is very good news for them that they can exchange stones for salt.
When the sun was setting in the west, a pile of stones of different sizes appeared in front of Shang, Mao and others, which Huang Guo and the others had found.
Shang, Mao and others picked through the pile of stones and finally found three kinds of stones that they had not obtained.
There were also three more spoons of salt in Huang Guo's tribe's salt shaker.
For them, it was a completely unexpected gain, and they were so happy that they couldn't keep their legs together.
When the sun set in the west, the leader of Huang Guo's tribe also came back with the people who went hunting.
Huang Guo and the others who were left behind happily greeted him...
Huang Guo was beaten, and she was beaten along with several other people who stayed behind.
It was the leader of the tribe who took action.
The reason for the beating was certainly not because there was a group of mostly men in the tribe's cave.
It was because Huang Guo and the others panicked.
The leader had dealt with that dark tribe. The people in that tribe were usually smiling, but when it came time to exchange things, they would be particularly hard-headed.
Now these few people who stayed behind actually said that they exchanged stones for a lot of salt from this tribe?
How could this happen?
So he was particularly disgusted with the bad-tempered leader of the tribe who told lies, and beat them without even saying a word.
