When asked by Jia Chao, Chief Dongfeng scratched his head in embarrassment.
"The pottery of your tribe is very useful, and many people in the Elders Council want it! But the pottery is too expensive, and we don't have that much food exchange!"
Jia Chao: "..."
Yes, this means you are not satisfied with the price, which means you can still negotiate business!
If the food is not enough, you can exchange it for something else!
Animal skins, bones, stones, rune stones, even saber-toothed tigers, slaves, etc., I will accept them all!
"That's right, but if they want pottery, won't they give you food in exchange?" Jia Chao asked, looking confused.
Chief Dongfeng muttered aggrievedly and helplessly:
"They all eat us, so how can they give us food? The most they can do is throw us some low-level rune stones or spirit animal bones!"
Jia Chao suddenly became interested after hearing this. Is there really a rune stone?
He immediately sat up straight and began to seriously seek advice from Chief Dongfeng.
It turns out that there are many types of rune stones in this world, and any special item with runes can be called a rune stone.
For example, rune stones that can awaken the power of spiritual words are called inheritance rune stones.
The rune stones that Dalang and Xingyue use to awaken the power of the elements are called elemental rune stones.
As for the guide bones and spirit storage bones that Jia Chao has seen before, they are also a type of rune stone, and they were all made by rune masters.
The low-level rune stone that Chief Dongfeng was talking about was a special type of rune stone called the Borrowing Spirit Stone.
As the name suggests, Borrowing Spirit Stones allows ordinary people to temporarily borrow the power of a Spirit Speaker or Elemental Warrior.
Usually it can only be used three to five times, and it will break into pieces after use. It is usually a personal item left by the strong men in large tribes to their descendants.
Hearing this, Jia Chao became uneasy. This thing is a complete war preparation material!
As long as the tribesmen are equipped with this thing, they can instantly turn into militiamen in case of war. Why does Chief Dongfeng still dislike it?
"Great Chief Dongfeng, do you have this borrowing spirit stone in your hand?"
"Yes!" Chief Dongfeng couldn't wait to take out a spiritual borrowing stone wrapped in animal skin. "Be careful, don't press on the rune line that runs through it!"
Jia Chao took the borrowed spirit stone and observed it, and quickly understood the principle of borrowing the spirit stone.
It turns out that rune technology is similar to a circuit board. It stores soul power in rune stones and activates it when needed.
The one used to activate the Spiritual Borrowing Stone is the running rune line that Chief Dongfeng mentioned.
By pressing both ends of the running rune line, the Borrowing Stone will be activated, allowing the user to gain access to the power stored within it.
"How long can a person become stronger by borrowing the power from the spirit stone?" Jia Chao suddenly asked the high priest Hulan. He thought she might be more professional in this regard.
"That depends on what you use it for. Generally speaking, it can last for a day after one use!" The high priest Hulan replied.
Jia Chao nodded with satisfaction, "Then how many pottery do you want to exchange for such a borrowed spirit stone?"
"Twenty clay pots! No! Fifty!" Chief Dongfeng replied immediately.
Jia Chao: "..."
You could call Chief Dongfeng honest, but he has a lot of tricks up his sleeve!
You could say he has a lot of eyes, but he can't hide his desire to take advantage.
During the time when Jia Chao entered the chief's tent, he had expressed his thoughts more than once.
He is greedy for the products of the Flame Stone Tribe, but he doesn't want to exchange for food.
So all he gave were non-necessities, and he also felt that Jia Chao must want these things very much.
If it were another person, it would really be impossible to be fooled by him.
But he was facing Jia Chao, so the result was different.
While Jia Chao was communicating with Chief Dongfeng and his family, he suddenly understood something.
He wanted the Sword Tiger Tribe to be his distributor, so that he would no longer have to go around looking for other small tribes to sell their products.
After all, the Sword Tiger Tribe is a medium-sized tribe, and it is also one of the trial sites set up by the Senluo Elders Council in Baimu Grassland.
Whether it is the needs of the Sword Tiger Tribe itself or the needs brought by the Senluo Elders Council, the products of the Yanshi Tribe can be sold easily.
The most important point is that the materials obtained from the transaction can be exchanged for things like borrowing spiritual stones in the Sword Tiger Tribe.
This result is exactly what Jia Chao needs.
He is confident that relying on farming technology can help the Flame Stone Tribe get rid of hunger, so the tribe's demand for food will decrease in the future, while the demand for items such as spiritual stones will increase.
Wanting to understand this truth, Jia Chao said to Chief Dongfeng:
"Fifteen clay pots, that's fairer!"
When Chief Dongfeng heard this, he patted his thigh excitedly and said:
"make a deal!"
Jia Chao looked at Chief Dongfeng who looked proud, and after much hesitation, he called Xingyue to his side.
"Xingyue, take out some brown sugar and give it to Chief Dongfeng and the others."
Xingyue nodded, took out a piece of brown sugar wrapped in dried lotus leaves, and carefully divided it into many portions.
Soon Chief Dongfeng and others all got a share of brown sugar, and even Xia Yun got a share.
They were holding brown sugar that looked like clods of soil, with some hesitation in their eyes.
Seeing this, Jia Chao had no choice but to start with Xia Yun and teach them to eat brown sugar in a "high-definition" way.
Perhaps out of the idea of teasing everyone, Jia Chao designed the action of eating sweets to be very redundant:
First lick it three times, then bite off some with your teeth and put it in your mouth to mix it with saliva. Wait until the sugar is completely dissolved in your mouth before swallowing it.
After tasting the sweetness, everyone in the Jianhu tribe immediately tasted the candy in their hands according to the method taught by Jia Chao.
For a moment, the only sound left in the big tent was the sound of swallowing saliva, and the whole scene was strange and full of joy.
"Ah Chao, this stuff is good! Where does it come from?" The high priest Hulan liked the taste of brown sugar very much.
Jia Chao rolled his eyes and said:
"This is a unique sweet soil of our tribe. It is only produced in the cave of Ancestor Yanlong. Because the production is limited, only people at the chief level can taste it."
Everyone: "..."
"Then what are its benefits?" High Priest Hulan asked next.
Jia Chao raised his head and thought for a moment, then said:
"It contains the smell of flaming stone. Men will become stronger after eating it, and women will be less prone to abdominal pain after eating it!"
When the High Priest Hulan heard this, his eyes lit up and he immediately said:
"Then how much do you need to eat to cure abdominal pain?"
Jia Chao: “It doesn’t take much, but you have to take it in the right way!”
After saying this, Jia Chao started making brown sugar water on the spot.
There was boiling hot water in the tent. Jia Chao asked Xingyue to take out a cup and put brown sugar in it, and then used a wooden spoon to disperse the brown sugar.
After doing all this, he raised his cup again and muttered:
"May the God of Fire grant you warmth!"
After the ceremony, he handed the water glass in his hand to the high priest Hulan.
The high priest Hulan was holding the water glass, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.
Because Jia Chao's pottery cup is an open cup, which is different from the water bags people usually make from the stomach pouches of beasts, it will be blocked by the mask on her face.
Jia Chao noticed her embarrassment and immediately handed her the wooden spoon in his hand.
With the help of a wooden spoon, the High Priest Hulan finally drank brown sugar water. A cup of ordinary brown sugar water made her drink it like high-end coffee.
Upon seeing this, Chief Dongfeng immediately said to Jia Chao:
"Chief Achao, how much of this brown sugar, this kind of pottery cup, and that little wooden gadget have you brought? Our Sword Tiger Tribe wants them all!"
Jia Chao grinned slightly and winked at Xingyue, "We only brought six cups and six spoons this time."
He motioned to Xingyue to take out the cups and spoons, "I originally wanted to visit the chiefs of several nearby tribes and give these things to them as meeting gifts. Now I will give them to you, Chief Dongfeng!"
Chief Dongfeng jumped up with excitement when he heard this. He took the cup and spoon from Jia Chao and carefully distributed the things to his four sons.
Jia Chao looked at Xia Yun, who had received nothing, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
He originally thought that Xia Yun would get a set, but he didn't expect that Chief Dongfeng would actually be a patriarchal master.
After everything was distributed, Jia Chao gave Chief Dongfeng a piece of brown sugar as big as his fist as payment for the borrowed spirit stone.
Chief Dongfeng, who felt that he had taken a big advantage, was naturally very happy and repeatedly asked Xia Yun to treat Jia Chao and Xingyue well.
So Jia Chao and his two men, led by Xia Yun, left the chief's tent and went to a mountain called Huwei Peak.
When they left, a burst of cheers erupted in the chief's tent.
"High Priest Hulan, you saw it! I said that boy would treat the borrowed spirit stone as a treasure. In the future, we can exchange it for pottery and animal skin clothing from the Flame Stone Tribe even if we don't need food!"
The high priest of Hulan bowed slightly, "The chief is indeed the smartest person in the Sword Tiger tribe! I just don't know how long this deal can last?"
Chief Dongfeng was displeased when he heard this and said:
"What? The high priest thinks that boy Ah Chao can escape from my grasp?"
High Priest Hulan shook his head and said:
"The stuff from the Flame Stone Tribe is very good, and everyone who has used it likes it. I'm afraid that not only will we be exchanging it with them, but the tribes behind the special envoys of the Presbyterian Church will also have their ideas."
After hearing this, Chief Dongfeng immediately lost his composure.
"No! We can't let them exchange with the Flame Stone Tribe!"
At this time, Donggua, the third son of Chief Dongfeng, suddenly said:
"Father, why don't we tell people outside that the pottery and animal skin clothing belong to our tribe? From now on, we will exchange things from the Flame Stone Tribe, and then use these things to exchange for better things from those big tribes!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and immediately gave a thumbs up.
If Jia Chao were present, he would definitely give a thumbs up.
He never imagined that Chief Dongfeng and his family would not only take the initiative to become his agents, but even have the business idea of taking advantage of the price difference.
I have to say that the genes of Chief Dongfeng's family are pretty good.
