Chapter 311: Secrets of the Black Water Tribes Chief (2/2)

Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo looked at each other.

The Black Water Tribe's Chief looked at their expressions and squinted, ”He An, what did they ask for before they made the move?”

He An lifted the fur from the roots of the wall, pulled out two sweet rods, covered them with fur, when he heard Chief's question and hurried over and said, ”Chief, they haven't asked yet.”

The Black Water Tribe's Chief's expression was a little cracked, and it seemed unbelievable that they had helped him remove the curse of the Beast G.o.d without asking for anything.

He An warmly greeted Yan Mo and Yuan Zhan. ”This is a special product of our tribe. We call it a sweet rod. You eat, peel the outer skin, and eat the inner core. Oh, the core cannot be eaten raw. This sweet rod's water is delicious, sweet!”

Yan Mo came here today for this sweet rod. He took it over and looked at it carefully. That's right. It should be the plant he expected.

Sweet rod, is what is also known as sweet sorghum, is one of the varieties of sorghum. It can be planted in the north, it is not fussy about the soil conditions. The growth period is only two months. After two months, it is ripe. Harvesting at the right time and you can harvest two to three stubble per one plant. In the warm places it can be planted in two seasons, cold places can be planted for only one season. Sweetness is not as strong as sugarcane, but it can be used to make sugar, wine, vinegar, feed, etc.

The sweet rod is wonderful because it can produce sorghum rice on the top and sugarcane on the bottom.

Sugarcane and sugar beet plants can be one of the important food products of The Jiu Yuan as long as the cultivation time is controlled well before they are encountered.

Yuan Zhan look at Yan Mo, can this stuff be eaten?

Yan Mo nodded. This thing can be eaten as long as there is no bad or no mold. If it can be stored, it will be fine after a winter.

He An was afraid that they would not eat it. He grabbed a pole and broke it in two. He bit off the green skin with his teeth and handed it to Yan Mo.

Yan Mo handed it to Yuan Zhan, whose teeth were still there, but he didn't want to test his old teeth firmness at all.

Jiu Feng's head rotated, and he hasn't eaten it. He wants to peck it.

Yuan Zhan didn't care about the saliva. He opened his mouth and took a big bite. He learned how to chew. Then, with a rare surprise on his face, he spit out the dregs and said, ”It's really sweet. It's different from honeydew melon.”

”Delicious?” Yan Mo had an unconscious smile on his face.

”Not bad.”

Yan Mo knows he felt it was good, and he doesn't want the Black Water People to see that he values the plant.

”You like it. These sweet rods are for you.” The Black Water Tribe's Chief was unexpectedly generous.

”Chief, all that's left is that we're going to trade in The Black Earth City... Do you have to send it all?

The Black Water Tribe's Chief sneered, ”So you said, I have a life. What thanks did you give them?”

He An scratches the head, their tribe is really poor, fur, bones, feathers and so on. Other tribes also have. The Black Earth City people themselves will hunt prey. The only thing they can trade and make the Black Earth City people like is the sweet rod.

Yan Mo timely asked, ”Do you have any fruit from this plant?”

The Black Water Tribe's Chief looked at him playfully, ”You want seeds?”

Yan Mo did not hide, ”Yes.” The Black Water Tribe's Chief seems very different from his people. Not only did Yuan Zhan expose his 7th rank strength, but also his way of speaking and thinking were not like the simple Black Water People.

”I can give you some seeds in return for saving me, but the way you grow them, you need to trade something else.”

”Yes.” He has a guide, so he doesn't need any planting methods. When seeds are available, his goal will be achieved.

”Where on earth are you from?” The Black Water Tribe's Chief curiously said, ”Do not mention the tribe at the end of the Black Water. I know all the people there. There is no such tribe as The Jiu Yuan upstream or downstream.”

”How do you know? Can you just walk up and down the Black Water River?” Yuan Zhan, with one leg on his back, chews on the sweet rod and looked relaxed.

Look at Yuan Zhan, the black water Tribe's Chief's tightened muscles slowly relax. ”Since you can see that I am a 7th rank blood warrior, you should also know that tribes like ours can't produce high-ranking warriors at all.”

Yan Mo thought of the information he had collected in The Moer-Gan, ”You were picked up by the Three Cities?”

”Yes, I probably only wake up when I was a little older.” The Black Water Tribe's Chief raised his hand and drew a little more than a meter. ”Our old priest heard that someone like me would be good for the tribe when he sent for the Three Cities, and he took me to the lower city the Gaogang City, which is nearest to Black Water River. Then I stayed at Gaogang until my people came to me for help and said that the Black Water Tribe's People could not hold up when hostile tribes attacked Black Water tribe.

The Black Water Tribe's Chief suddenly laughed and said, ”You are not from the Three Cities. The Three Cities never call themselves the Three Cities. They make a clear distinction between upper, middle and lower ranks. They must never be confused.”

Yan Mo did not answer immediately, but only smiled.

He An interrupted, with a reverent face: ”When Chief returned, he quickly pushed back the enemies. After that, the tribes near us dare not provoke us anymore. We were originally only few tribesmen. When Chief returned, he subdued all the tribes around us, and we became tribes.”

The Black Water Tribe's Chief did not show any complacency, but lazily went on, ”I can tell you that you are not people near the Black Water River, because the Black Water Tribe is downstream of the Black Water River, and there are many people from other tribes in the Gaogang City, none of them mentioned the Jiu Yuan.”

Yan Mo did not speak, Yuan Zhan did not relieve the doubt in the mind of The Black Water Tribe's Chief. Instead, he asked, ”After that, you stayed in The Black Water Tribe? The Gaogang City people allow you to leave?”

The Black Water Tribe's Chief sneered. “The Gaogang City is just an affiliate of the lower city. At that time, I only had 5th rank. There were a lot of 5th rank warriors like me, and they didn't care. Plus when I stayed at 5th rank for a long time, they probably felt that I was hopeless to upgrade, let alone not allow me to leave.”

Yan Mo guessed: ”It's too late for the Gaogang City people to regret when they think you're got back and improved your strength quickly, right?”

”No, they don't know I've risen to 7th rank. Everyone who knows is dead. Your warrior is the first one to see my actual strength. I think your rank is probably not lower than mine.” The Black Water Tribe's Chief had looked to Yuan Zhan when he said his last sentence, ”Where on earth are you from? What are you doing in the Black Earth City doing?”

”What about you? Listening to what you said, your Black Water Tribe should be attached to the Gaogang City in lower city. Why did you come to the Black Earth City which is a middle city? Yuan Zhan thought of a possibility, ”Are you going to partic.i.p.ate in this selection, expose your real strength in the selection, and then strive for the opportunity to enter Tucheng-Earth City or stay in The Black Earth City?”

”So we can get rid of the affiliation to the Gaogang City. Although they let me go back, but made us pay too hard, the sweet rod just reached the harvest time, they immediately sent people to collect goods, each time they will pull away most of our harvest and my tribesmen are not full! Hearing that the Black Earth City is not so greedy, the Gaogang City is attached to the Black Earth City. Just this time I selected the temple warriors, I brought Tribesmen over to partic.i.p.ate.”

Yan Mo suddenly asked, ”What was our purpose just now?” What do you think we should be doing for?”

The Black Water Tribe's Chief said, ”I thought you wanted the seeds of sweet rods, and you did.”

Yan Mo picked up the stick and poked at the black Water Tribe's Chief's injured leg. ”Boy, it's not good to lie.”

The Black Water Tribe's Chief just couldn't hide from the old man. It was even more impossible to beat him. He could only shout, ”Stop! Stop poking! I mean it! ”

They looked at him together.

The Black Water Tribe's Chief covered his wounded leg with the skin hide and said, ”I thought at first that you were the people invited by the Gaogang City Temple from the temples of other cities and wanted to threaten me to give up this selection. After all, you can get rid of the curse of the beast G.o.d. This is not what any priest of an ordinary tribe can do. I say, where do you come from?”

Yan Mo doesn't believe it. Yuan Zhan uses him eyes to tell his own priest: this kid is lying.

So what secret does the Black Water Tribe's Chief hide, so that when he heard that his life had been saved, he was not only grateful to his benefactor, but also alert?