Chapter 61 We Want to Ask You a Favor

Although they didn't climb very high, they reached the other side of the mountain, and the round trip time was not short.

"Mee~Mee~" Shen Xiaoxiao clearly heard the sound of the sheep, her eyes lit up, she looked around but didn't see the shadow of the sheep, and she felt disappointed, thinking she could catch a sheep.

Xiao Yan saw what Shen Xiaoxiao was thinking, and a dark light flashed in his eyes. He had already made a plan in his mind.

When they returned to the tribe, the people who went out to hunt and pick had not returned yet. They took out the eggs and put them in a corner of the cave, and then started cooking.

Shen Xiaoxiao asked Xiao Yan to kill a chicken and told him to keep the chicken feathers. She wanted to use these chicken feathers to make reed boots. After all, she couldn't wear cool straw shoes in winter.

She filled water and put some chestnuts on the stove to boil them, so that the chestnut shells would be easier to remove after scalding.

Shen Xiaoxiao put the chicken in the pot and cooked a pot of soup. She put the shelled chestnuts in it and sprinkled a little salt on it. The chicken soup with the fragrance of chestnuts lingered for a long time.

"Xiao Yan, we only have a little salt left." I don't know where the salt came from. This era should still be an era of barter.

"The tribe will go to other tribes to exchange things in a few days. We will exchange some back then." Xiao Yan said calmly.

"What do we use to exchange?" Shen Xiaoxiao was a little curious. After all, they were poor and there seemed to be nothing to exchange.

"You can use animal skins or other prey food."

Shen Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said, "We should be able to exchange the baskets we weave, right?" After all, these things didn't exist in this era. She thought it should be quite popular. You can tell by the attitude of other people in the tribe.

"Yes." Xiao Yan nodded.

"Then let's weave a few baskets to exchange. Can pots and bowls also be exchanged? Let's cook more to exchange." Hunting is so dangerous. She doesn't really want Xiao Yan to go hunting. Besides, animal skins must be used in winter, so it's impossible to exchange them.

It would be great if I could use baskets and pots and bowls to exchange, but doing these things would take a little time, but on second thought, it would take the same amount of time as going hunting, it's just a different thing to do, and it's safer this way.

"That's fine." Xiao Yan thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go cut some vines tomorrow." He remembered that there was a place where a lot of vines grew, and it would take some effort.

"Okay, I'll make some pottery at home tomorrow, and go back into the mountains the day after tomorrow."

She wanted to say something else, but then she heard, "What a nice smell, what smells so good."

"I smelled it too, and it's so strong."

Shen Xiaoxiao turned around and saw that the people who went hunting and picking had returned. They were looking for the source of the smell, and they followed the smell to Shen Xiaoxiao one by one. Looking at the pot of steaming soup, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva, "Goddess, did you make this?"

Shen Xiaoxiao nodded gently, "Yeah, chicken soup." After thinking about it, she changed her words, "It's the soup cooked by the short-tailed bird."

The crowd couldn't believe it, it was fake, they had eaten short-tailed birds before, how could it smell so good, the gluttons in their stomachs were all aroused, they wanted to eat it, but this was from the goddess.

"Goddess, you didn't lie to us." Some people didn't believe it, "How could a short-tailed bird smell so good."

"Why did I lie to you? Nong, its feathers are still there." Shen Xiaoxiao pointed to the chicken feathers placed aside.

They were silent, and began to wonder if what they had eaten before was not the same thing as what the goddess had eaten. How could the taste be so different? This smelled so good, it must taste good.

They swallowed hard and forced themselves to look away, "Then goddess, you eat first, we also want to eat food."

Shen Xiaoxiao did not stay, after all, there were only so many, if she kept people, there would not be enough for everyone to share.

Soon the tribe also lit a fire, and the barbecue they had eaten with relish before, now smelled the fragrance everywhere, and it felt a little bland.

"Eat more." Shen Xiaoxiao scooped a large spoonful of chicken soup for Xiao Yan, "This yellow one is chestnut, try it, it tastes very good."

Xiao Yan ate some, his eyes lit up, a little pink, and a little sweet, the important thing is that he was full and could fill his stomach. It turned out that this thing was really edible, but they didn't know it.

"Chestnuts can be made into many delicious things, but now the conditions are limited, so we can only cook them and eat them." Shen Xiaoxiao drank a mouthful of soup and breathed a sigh of relief. As expected, she still had to eat something hot.

"Let's pick up more the day after tomorrow." Shen Xiaoxiao said easily. In fact, Xiao Yan had already decided to pick up more without Shen Xiaoxiao saying anything. After all, this is food and can't be wasted.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you want to tell them?" Although they are not acting with the tribe now, he has lived in the tribe for many years after all, so he naturally hopes that the tribe will be good.

"Say it, it's not a valuable thing. Besides, there is more than one such tree in the mountain, and we can't pick them all." Shen Xiaoxiao said calmly. They are not pigs, and they can't eat so many chestnuts.

And this can also make the relationship with the tribe more harmonious. If it brings benefits to them, they will naturally accept her. Don't look at them calling her a goddess now, but if she can't bring them benefits for a long time, no one will believe in her as a goddess in the end.

After all, Chinese people never worship useless gods, not to mention that she is a fake.

The most important thing is that they can only be well if the tribe is well. Although they don't act together, they are still part of the tribe. If something bad happens, she can't escape.

"By the way, we can pick more persimmons and make them into persimmon cakes. We can exchange them for things or keep them for ourselves." Shen Xiaoxiao thought about it and said, these are all the food they can catch now, so it won't be wrong to pick more.

It's just that there are only two of them, and they can't do everything right away.

Just as Xiao Yan was about to say something, he saw the witch doctor coming over, followed by a few people. He stopped talking, stood up, and said, "Witch doctor."

The witch doctor nodded at him and smiled lovingly, "Goddess, have you been well these days?"

Shen Xiaoxiao nodded, with some guesses in her heart, and she felt that the witch doctor must have something to ask her.

Sure enough, she heard, "Goddess, we have something to ask you."

"Just tell me if you have something." Shen Xiaoxiao said calmly.

The witch doctor hesitated for a long time, and said with embarrassment, "We would like you to teach us how to make the pot you use, is that okay?" Then he said anxiously, "We can exchange it with food." After saying that, he looked at Shen Xiaoxiao nervously, and so did the others, fearing that they would hear Shen Xiaoxiao reject them.

Shen Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, but she understood it after thinking about it, and her eyes turned slightly. In fact, it was not impossible to teach them. After all, she would also make pottery tomorrow, so it would be no problem to teach them at the same time.