The Minotaur tribe is a very sparse tribal population in the wasteland, they are also a branch of the orcs, but they are more suitable for living in warmer places, the cold winter winds on the Pai Plateau make these Minotaurs miserable, and the purest Minotaur in the tribe are still vegetarians, so this barren and food-producing Pai Plateau is a barren land for them.Old Kuru told us that there are no more than 30,000 minotaurs on the Pai Plateau now, they don't have such a powerful stomach as werewolves, and when werewolves are hungry, they can eat bark and grass roots and even boiled leather, but the minotaurs can only eat sweet potatoes at worst, and they are tall, and the adult minotaurs rarely weigh less than a ton, and a meal requires at least twenty or thirty catties of food, so that food is the biggest barrier that affects the reproduction of the minotaur tribe.Tribal minotaurs are natural gatherers, they are naturally sensitive to herbs, and adult minotaurs will leave their homes with a medicine basket on their backs, and their footsteps can walk through every remote corner of the wasteland.Kig said that the tall, mild-mannered minotaur had given up the silver leaf grass all over the ground.Just because Qi Ge said very politely, he had to exchange the other herbs in his backpack for Silver Leaf Grass with Qi Ge, which shows how honest his temperament is, and even a little stupid!
At that time, Qige shook his head in refusal, and said to the minotaur with a smile: "This place is full of flowering silver leaf grass, here, it is definitely not a problem for me to give you some silver leaf grass, but if I exchange other herbs with you, it will take advantage of you."
The minotaur was also very confused about Qige's refusal, but after listening to Qige's explanation, he laughed heartily, simply opened his herbal bag, showed the herbs inside to Qige, turned his head and saw that there was a Yagui beast grazing next to Qige, so he asked Qige: Smart human girl, you must have brought a lot of daily necessities with you when you travel in this wasteland with Yaguimon!
So, do you have salt?
The minotaur proposed to exchange salt and wheat cakes for herbs, and this condition was accepted by Qige without hesitation, because she took a fancy to the wood herbs and salvia in the minotaur herb bag, these two magic herbs are both excipients for making moonshine ink, although the amount is very small, but if you want to buy these two herbs, it is not easy to meet, if you want to buy it, you must go to the large magic herb shop in the big city, Qige's moonshine ink material is just short of these two excipients, originally she also wanted to configure the magic ink when she can cut corners, Just like last time I didn't have a Tranquility Flower, I also made a scroll, didn't I?
When Qi Ge said this, I asked her strangely, "Miss Qi, didn't you tell the minotaur that there is a saltwater pond not far from here?"
”Kige sat next to me and laid out the herbs in the herbal bag that were used to make moonshine ink one by one according to the proportions, and then said to me aggrievedly, "Why didn't I say it?
I told him that there must be a salt mine by the pond not far away, and that he could mine a piece of the belt.However, he told me that this kind of salt mine is very common in the wasteland, but only large animals dare to drink such salt water, and that orcs can easily get sick when they drink it, and told me that those stone salt mines are poisonous, and told me to be careful not to drink the salt water in the pond by mistake!
”I was a little dumbfounded after hearing this, and I asked Kuzi who was fishing for meat in the haggis soup pot on the side: "Az, you said that there is a shortage of salt on the Pai Plateau, half of the salt is from the well salt transported from the dwarf country, and the other half is from the sea salt transported from the human country, the reason why you don't produce salt on the Pai Plateau" Kuzi swallowed the offal in his mouth, looked up and said to me: "The stone salt mines all over the Pai Plateau are poisonous!"
”I remember the last time I bought salt in Yemen, the price of a pound of salt was about 20 silver, and then I asked Qige: "What is the price of salt in the Grin capital?"
”"Fine salt is about two silver pounds, and coarse salt is fifty copper plates!
However, selling salt without permission is a felony and is punishable by gallows or guillotines.If you want to transport salt to the Pai Plateau, you need to have a trade certificate, and you also need to pay a high tariff, usually after these things are done, a pound of salt will rise to about ten silver, and the high freight and loss, the salt dealers will transport the salt into the Guruding tribe for about fifteen silver!
Isn't it a little orc?
”Kig said to me as he folded his fingers.Her eyes were staring at the various colors of magic grass smoke on the ground, very focused on subdividing the types, it seemed that she was going to configure moonlight ink today.I asked Kuz, "I mean, since salt is so expensive, haven't you orc tribes ever thought about how to use it to store it?"
”"How could it not be?
I don't know how many sages have always wanted to use magic to refine better quality salt, there are many successful examples, but the cost is higher than the cost of buying from humans, all kinds of catalysts and fusion agents and a large amount of charcoal, I don't know how much salt can be exchanged for these things alone, before the luxury goods in the human world did not enter the wasteland, there were too many good things in our tribe, and a bundle of magic herbs could be exchanged for a jar of salt, and no one had ever worried about salt!
It's only in the past few years that I have become poorer and poorer, and I gradually found that I can't even afford to eat salt, let alone make it myself!
”"We don't have much salt, I thought that preparing two catties of salt in this wasteland was enough, but I didn't expect that the minotaur finally proposed to exchange a cold ice grass for a catty of salt!"
Qi Ge said with some embarrassment, the ice grass is no longer a primary magic herb, and it can be regarded as a relatively special among the intermediate magic herbs, mainly because in the territory of the Grimm Empire, there is no place where the ice grass grows at all, except for the ice and snow tundra where the barbarians live in the northernmost region grow this plant, and the other is that the ice grass will appear under the Great Snow Mountain of the Pai Plateau of the orc clan and the depths of the Neosiachis Mountains of the Dwarf Country, and this thing is worth almost a gold coin in the Grimm Empire.I can't help but say that Qige has taken a big advantage, but I'm afraid that the salt we brought will also be declared out of stock."
At most, when we make food in the future, we should try to put as little salt as possible, and eat more meat to save salt!"
Kig was already thinking about how he could save salt.I kicked Kuz, who was still fishing for meat in the soup pot, and asked him to take back our cooked magic antelope skin, and the magic antelope leather had to be brushed with a special magic potion during the cooking process, otherwise the magic storage in the magic leather would be greatly reduced during the cooking process.Well, since that's the reason for that, I have to talk about what exactly is the difference between normal leather and magic leather?
Right!
It is the storage of magic, magic leather does not mean that the defense ability will be stronger than ordinary leather, for example, the hard cowhide of the one-horned bison on the wasteland is more durable than the magic antelope skin, but the difference is that the bison leather can not store magic power, magicians can use a carving knife to draw a magic pattern circle on the leather of the magic antelope, these successful drawing of the magic pattern circle of the leather is the magic scroll, these magic scrolls can be put for a long time without invalidation, but ordinary bison skin, in fact, magicians can also draw the magic pattern circle on the bison skin, It's just that the magic pattern circle drawn on the bison skin will completely evaporate in just half a day, leaving only an empty cowhide scroll full of knife marks.Caterina squatted behind Kig at this time, grinding the secondary moonstone with a grinder, I found a bottle of magic stabilizer in Kige's waist bag, and waited for Kuz to retrieve the half-dried demon antelope skin, and used a small brush to evenly apply the stabilizer to the demon antelope skin, I hate the spicy taste of this stabilizer, this is the taste of Kudzu's pulp, hehe smiled and hugged Kuz and said to him: "Brother, I have thought of another way to make money, when will you take over the management of the Guruding tribe, When you become a big boss, write me a letter, and when the time comes, I will tell you how to lead your people to make a fortune, brother, I definitely have a good trick in this regard. ”Kuzi pursed his lips and smiled, raised his thick eyebrows and said with joy: "I have six elder brothers above, I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for you to get rich in this life, if I can become the chief of Guruding Town, not only do I have to kill all six of my elder brothers, but I also need them to have no queen, but my eldest brother's eldest son Kubandi is the same age as me, and he is brave, and he is also very powerful in our tribe." ”"Are you good at that?"
I asked him curiously, "Haha, if you talk about fighting, you will definitely not be able to compare to me, if you fight me, it will be difficult for me to defeat him, my advantage is the entire wasteland, for a person like me who can survive in any environment, the entire northern foothills wasteland is my home!"
”Kuz's smoothed the antelope skin in his arms on the grass, and cooperated with me to apply magic paint to the sheepskin.When Caterina saw us sorting out three one-meter-square Antelope skins, she was probably worried that I was too tired, and I had been hunting by the pond for most of the day and staying up late at night to draw magic scrolls, so she asked worriedly, "How many scrolls are you going to make today?"
”"Do as much as you can, I don't know what will happen in the future, the conditions in the wasteland are not good, and the orcs are also living very hard, I think most of the people who can adapt to the environment here have to drink raw water and eat raw meat, maybe they can't eat salt for a long time, so they will get sick after a long time, we can help these people as much as we can!"
I didn't do this on a whim, I just wanted to help the orcs through the current difficulties, and the simple orcs cared more about equal exchange, they don't like to accept other people's gifts, maybe helping others in this way will bring us greater gains.Seeing that Qige was a little ashamed at this time, I realized that she had always cared about whether we could eat salt in the future, and she was also a little guilty of her selfish behavior.I turned to her and winked, "Don't worry, I've seen a very practical, simple way to make salt in the ancient orc magic sheepskin scrolls, and I can guarantee that at least in the wasteland we will have an endless supply of salt."
Don't worry, I've got you!
”Qige's face was slightly red, and he glared at me angrily and said, "Are you sure you can do it all night?"
”"Miss Qi, can we not eat a fat man in one go?"
I asked her with a bitter face.