Chapter 205: The Old Priest Doub (2/2)
There is a trace of greed in The Old Priest's eyes. He needs blood to feed his body or it will go stiff and cease to function. He is not good at stealing, so he can only play the idea of prey.
Yuan Zhan did not miss the greed look. ”There are no living thing, only frozen meat that has not been marinated, and ten frozen lambs for ten children.”
”No.” The Old Priest did not expect Jiu Yuan to be stupid to send them living prey, ”The ten frozen sheep can be exchanged for up to five children, only the youngest son under the age of five.”
”Under the age of ten.”
”No!”
Yuan Zhan frowned. ”Children cannot be taken care of, the children under five years old are weak, and it’s not good for winter.”
The Old Priest just didn’t agree. He turned to Zhang and shouted: “Chief!”
Zhang took a breath and said to Yuan Zhan: “Children under the age of six with parents and brothers will be given to you.”
Seeing that Zhang was speaking, Yuan Zhan no longer insists, ”How many?”
”There were 30 of them, and there are still twenty who are not starvingto death or sick, but missing their parents.” Zhang has some doubt, but suffered from being unable to complain.
”Too little, add a few more women.”
”No!” The women we must not give. The Old Priest is still thinking about the idea of the women of Granma Tribe.
Zhang grabbed three dead branches of average length, and smashed them at the middle, and two of them were thrown into the fire pit. ”Da Zhan, how about this way, there are still some old people and disabled warriors in the tribe, they can't work, I know that Jiu Yuan has all kinds of work which does not necessarily need an abled warrior. You bring them back, give them work, let them give you a spinning thread or do anything. These people we won’t want you to change food for them. We will add eight children, this will account to twenty sheep?”
The old Chief said this to the extent that Yuan Zhan could not argue more? Even if he exchanged, and he was very disadvantaged. Yuan Zhan nodded, with a little reluctant venting his emotions, grabbed the stone bowl that had just been placed around, poured the cold water into the corner, and smashed the cup again.
The Old Priest also wanted to send out the old, weak and sick, and he was very pleased with Zhang pushing the pile of waste to Jiu Yuan so easily.
So the two sides finalized and exchanged the food equivalent to forty adult frozen lambs with twenty children under six years old.
The Old Priest still wanted to exchange the living thing, and he can't wait for the spring of next year, and he can't go into the forest now.
”Da Zhan, do you have fur? We have a good fur to exchange the prey things with you, as long as twenty... Or ten can do it.”
Yuan Zhan was trying to refuse, thinking and he said: ”Don't need fur, do you have a lot of herbs and plant seeds? We like these, Priest, if you have these, come look for Lie and we will talk.”
”Ok, you will come to me later, I will find it for you. There is another thing, the winter is cold, many people in the tribe are sick, and some people are freezing and cold. If not, I will not be with a cheeky face to come to stay inside Jiu Yuan for the winter. This pit house is warmer than the tent. We are waiting for the spring of next year, we also plan to dig a few large pits like this, but the warmth of the pit house is too warm, but it is also inconvenient in such a big snow as this. But if the people in the house slept and were buried in the snow, they wouldn't know.”
”Is Qiu Shi Da Ren thinking that the pit house that Jiu Yuan has loaned to you is not good?” Yuan Zhan tone was filled with annoyance
The Old Priest, who took advantage of the cheapest stake, smiled. ”Of course not. I just thought that we can't borrow a house for you every winter. It's all for the tribe. Da Zhan, next spring, you help us with Yu Ji. City, you Xi Rang Clan can control the soil, it is not difficult for you to build a house.”
How thick is this skin to raise the issue about Xi Rangs helping? Yuan Zhan was quiet for a while and he said if he had just spoken too appeasing before and that maybe let The Old Priest say... What is the word that is spoken? Yes, win an inch, want a foot!
1]... Win an inch, want a foot is an idiom meaning someone not satisfied with what he got
”Would you like us to help build a house? Okay, as long as we exchange it with a living person.”
The Old Priest gave Zhang a look, and Zhang looked helpless. Yuan Zhan said: ”How many of us have to be exchanged for you. Don't listen to Qiu Shi. How do the tribes build their things, we will make it ourselves, don't need your help. Didn't you say that you had something coming to find me? What is it??”
Zhang didn't look The Old Priest, knowing that he couldn't leave, what is the meaning of opening this mouth?
”I want to talk to you about the division of the hunt site next year.”
The Old Priest heard this and didn't interrupt it. Just watched Zhang and Yuan Zhan negotiate.
From seeing Zhang, Yuan Zhan went back to the inner city to explain a few things and then went to see Yan Mo at the inheritance site.
Yan Mo has passed the 4th Rank test passed by The Bone Sculpting Tribe and was currently learning the 5th Rank.
Starting from the 5th Rank, the requirements for the time of studying the bones are not so strict. The bones that could only be worn on the top of the head were also made into a wide bracelet and stuck on his left wrist.
Yan Mo thinks this arrangement is very reasonable.
After all, The Bone Sculpting Tribe didn't think about handing over the inheritance to creatures other than The Bone Sculpting Tribe descendants. The time from 1st Rank to 3rd Rank would be so regulated so tight. It should be a requirement that only the Bone Sculpting People who can enter the inheritance. There is a certain foundation, the knowledge below 3rd Rank is not difficult for them, and it is like one going through the preparation.
The 4th Rank learning was an introduction to The Bone Sculpting People, so the voice from the bone skull gave me forty-nine days of study time. The 4th Rank exam will excludes those who are not suitable for learning bone sculpt or did not want to study the art seriously.
The 5th Rank begins with an increase in difficulty, and mental exercise becomes one of the main branches of learning. The Bone Sculpting People who have a little talent also need to exercise for a long time before grasping it. For this reason, there is no time limit for learning bones at this stage, so that the learner can learn until that time he thinks he is ready to master the trial to challenge and pass the 5th Rank.
Yan Mo guesses that even if the Bone Sculpting People mental strength is not developed, they will probably only stop at the 5th Rank. Because if you want to learn the Bone Sculpting methods of the 6th Rank or above, you must pass the 5th Rank test.
The 5th Rank begins with the requirement that learners must independently create a complete bone device that can be manipulated with yuan-crystal.
Yan Mo intends to fully grasp the knowledge of the 5th Rank and then go back. Anyway, and he has a space pocket, and he does not need to worry about food or water. It is more troublesome to take a bath and keep warm.
Yuan Zhan has no pressure because of his special ability to enter and exit The Bone Sculpting Tribe. He knows that there are more powerful big guys in the inheritance, but even if he can't escape he is not afraid.
“Chief Zhang was asking for help?” Yan Mo had only given a third of his attention to Yuan Zhan until he heard the sentence and looked up.
Yuan Zhan bowed his head and his expression looked very heavy. ”That is the special action agreed between the warriors in the tribe. It is only used when it is trapped or threatened by the enemy, and the person does not know the situation.”
”You will repeat the process.”
Yuan Zhan, not impatient, he really repeated from the start to finish.
”It seems a bit wrong, Qiu Shi, the old guy...” Yan Mo looked worried.
Yuan Zhan, ”You heard it too? I think The Old Priest is like changed person.”
”Is he changed?” Yan Mo’s heart was shocked, he was thinking that the old guy would not be crossing over like him?
”I want to meet him.”
”No hurry, you first pass the Bone Sculpting Tribe test, the tribe has me watching over it, there will be nothing going wrong. If The Old Priest really has problems, I would like to see what he wants to do.”
”It is nothing more than the idea of stealing Jiu Yuan's ideas, or for The Fruit of Witchcraft. Do you think Qiu Shi knows that The Fruit of Witchcraft is on me?”
“I didn't feel it.”
Yan Mo slapped the knee. “If it was the original Old Priest, as long as he heard about The Fruit of Witchcraft, he will be able to analyze that the fruit is now in me. When Jiu Feng brought the fruit back, many people in Yuan Ji Tribe saw that, and some of those people did not come back with us.
“I was going to find a chance to find Zhang so he can tell me about this, but Qiu Shi watches over Zhang very tightly.”
”I will find the opportunity, wait for me to come back, I will find a reason to have both of them come, and we will talk to them separately.” Yan Mo’s impression of Zhang is very good. He doesn’t want this person to die or be abandoned.
Zhang was still thinking about sending out the people who are not living in the tribe to get a living prey, so that the leader is dead too.
Yuan Zhan also laughed. ”I am more and more skeptical that the old guy is not Qiu Shi. Zhang said that he would give me the old people and the disabled. He didn't stop it. He thought it was cheap skate. The children he didn't say anything about it, the younger they are, the easier it is to change loyalties, about the old and the weak, they cannot take care of the old warriors who cannot hunt prey, some people are still disabled, but their combat experience and hunt experience are still there, they have lived to forty years old The one who are above 40 are all fine. In the past winters, if there was not enough food, no one will go to the point of killing the old warriors' idea. It is really impossible to stop, they usually they killed themselves. We Jiu Yuan is now lacking anything in term of food. These experienced old warriors can help us to train new warriors, future slaves, and those savage people, which is why they are of great use.”