I am a Primitive Man

Chapter 360: Fire Tribe? Weaving workers?

Chapter 360: Fire Tribe? Weaving workers?

Bai Xue undoubtedly became the most dazzling presence in this encounter with the Fire Tribe.

The women and the male primitive people of the Fire Tribe were gradually drawn by what she said. Like the women, they gathered around and listened attentively to Bai Xue's stories.

Han Cheng kept smiling as he watched Bai Xue, like a star surrounded by many moons. Through his efforts, he had made the daughters-in-law who were not valued by their "natal families" shine brightly upon returning to their "natal families". It felt good.

When idle women gathered together, the final topic always revolved around clothes, hair, and similar things, whether in ancient times or later eras.

After a round of storytelling, while the men were still amazed at the various aspects of the Green Sparrow Tribe, the women of the Fire Tribe had already turned their attention to the braids that Bai Xue wore.

Bai Xue, mindful of the Green Sparrow Tribe's customs, called a few women from the Tribe over and handed them the method of braiding adult women's hair.

Han Cheng, watching the women of the Fire Tribe with their braids tied up with washed ash, smiled even more. If you stripped off the animal skins they were wearing, cleaned them up, and then dressed them in their tribe's clothes, they would look exactly like people from the Green Sparrow Tribe.

After teaching the women of the Fire Tribe how to braid their hair, Bai Xue bounced over to Han Cheng. The hesitant chief of the Fire Tribe followed her.

For the chief of the Fire Tribe, many things Bai Xue said were incomprehensible, but they were also surprising and somewhat unbelievable. He felt that a tribe could not possibly make these things.

The rest of the Fire Tribe's people had the same attitude.

It's just that these pottery, salt, and boats can sail on water... These things, as seen with their own eyes, all confirmed the correctness of what Bai Xue said.

What kind of tribe was this?

Similar words had lingered in the mind of the chief of the Fire Tribe more than once.

Originally, he thought that being led by such an underage person would be difficult, but the fact was that they were living better than their tribe.

He also discovered that there were more people from this tribe than there were last time.

And regardless of gender, they seemed to have more energy than the people of their tribe.

This made him believe about seventy or eighty percent of what Bai Xue said about the Green Sparrow Tribe being more populous than their Fire Tribe.

"Ask him what's the matter."

Seeing that the chief of the Fire Tribe had been hesitant and silent after coming over, Han Cheng opened his mouth and asked Bai Xue, the little translator.

Do they want more pottery and salt?

Han Cheng pondered over this sentence.

The chief of the Fire Tribe looked at Han Cheng, who didn't speak. He felt somewhat awkward and felt that he had gone too far. They had already been given some precious pottery and salt as dowry, yet they still wanted more.

Thinking this way, he was about to withdraw the request, but at this moment, the silent underage tribal leader spoke up.

Could they have some more?!

The chief of the Fire Tribe, upon understanding Bai Xue's conveyed message, stood up from the ground with excitement.

Han Cheng looked at the excited chief of the Fire Tribe and smiled kindly.

Of course, this time, it wouldn't be free. The things given earlier were considered Bai Xue's betrothal gifts. If they wanted more, they would have to pay a price.

Could they exchange them for bamboo or hemp?

The chief of the Fire Tribe was completely puzzled; he didn't know what bamboo and hemp were.

Han Cheng had Bai Xue tell the chief of the Fire Tribe that these were things that grew upstream in the river.

Bamboo and hemp were too far from the Green Sparrow Tribe, and a round trip would take nearly a month, which was too laborious. It would be much more comfortable if a tribe could transport them to its own tribe.

With these imported hemp, their own tribe could plant less hemp and more edible grains in the future.

It would be even better if the Fire Tribe were taught to weave with hemp and then let them use the woven cloth to trade with their own tribe for salt, pottery, and other things.

Weaving cloth had always been a laborious and not easy task.

When the Green Sparrow Tribe began to grow hemp and weave cloth, many people were inevitably bound by the small looms and unable to move freely.

Correspondingly, the number of people doing other work would decrease, and productivity would decline.

If such a time-consuming and laborious task were outsourced to the Fire Tribe, the Green Sparrow Tribe would be much easier.

As long as they harvested wild hemp and wove cloth, they could exchange what their tribe needed. The people of the Fire Tribe did not refuse.

If this continued, as the Fire Tribe continuously expanded production and became accustomed to trading with woven hemp cloth for their livelihood materials from the Green Sparrow Tribe, their lifeline would be controlled by the Green Sparrow Tribe, and when the time came... hehehe...

Didn't want to exchange for hemp and bamboo?

The message conveyed by Bai Xue was undoubtedly a bucket of cold water poured down, extinguishing the fire burning in Han Cheng's heart.

After thinking for a moment, Han Cheng said, "If they are willing to join our tribe, then they will have everything we have, not just pottery and salt, but also other things..."

As expected by Han Cheng, as soon as such conditions were stated, the chief of the Fire Tribe immediately shook his head and refused.

As a leader, he would not give up his tribe to join another tribe as long as they could still survive. On the contrary, some female primitive people who heard these things around them were somewhat moved.

First, they were not leaders and didn't consider much, and second, Bai Xue's life was too tempting.

Bai Xue herself was the best example - a person who was about to be burned to death, but after coming to that tribe, she transformed and became an existence they admired...

After thinking for a while, the chief of the Fire Tribe shook his head and left, looking disappointed.

Although he longed for pottery and salt, he had not reached the point of giving up his tribe for them. After all, their tribe was doing fine without pottery and salt.

Compared to that, exchanging for bamboo and hemp seemed a good choice, making him somewhat tempted.

But as soon as he thought about the need to travel upstream for these two things, he gave up the idea.

They were not from the tribe that came from the water and couldn't make boats that could sail on water. Moreover, they didn't know what hemp and bamboo looked like.

"We can send a few people to go with us to see what hemp and bamboo look like and then see if our tribe is as Bai Xue said..."

Seeing that the outsourcing of weaving was about to fail, Han Cheng thought for a moment and spoke up.

"We don't need to exchange for hemp this time. As long as someone goes, it will be given as a gift..."