96. A Happy Life
The cold winds of winter on the Pai plateau make these minotaurs suffer, and the purest minotaurs in the tribe are still vegetarians, so the barren and non-food producing Pai plateau is a barren place for them. Old Kulu told us that the Minotaurs on the Pai Plateau now do not exceed 30,000 people, they do not have such a strong stomach as the wolves, when the wolves are hungry bark and grass roots, even boiled leather can eat, but the Minotaurs at worst can only eat ground potatoes, and they are tall, adult Minotaurs rarely weigh less than a ton, a meal at least 20 to 30 pounds of food, so that food is the biggest barrier to the reproduction of the Minotaurs. The biggest barrier to tribal reproduction.
The tribal minotaurs are born gathering experts, they are born to be particularly sensitive to herbs, adult minotaurs will only carry the medicine basket away from home, footsteps can step on every remote corner of the wilderness.
Kiger said this tall and gentle minotaur actually gave up the ground full of silver leaf grass.
Just because Kiger is very polite a word, have to take their own backpack of other herbs with Kiger in exchange for silver leaf grass, see his temperament is how simple, even some silly it!
At that time, Kiger shook his head to say no, and smiled and said to the minotaur: this everywhere is flowering silver leaf grass, here, I give you some silver leaf grass is absolutely no matter, but if you exchange other herbs, that is to take advantage of you.
The minotaur was confused by Kiger's refusal, but after listening to Kiger's explanation, he laughed heartily and simply opened his herbal bag, showing the herbs inside to Kiger, and turned his head to see Kiger's side and a beast of prey eating grass, and asked Kiger: smart human girl, you traveled with a beast of prey in the wilderness, you must have brought a lot of supplies! So, do you have any salt?
The minotaur offered to exchange salt and wheat cakes for herbs, and this condition was accepted by Kiger without hesitation, because she had her eye on the herb packet of the minotaur, wood herb and salvia, these two magic herbs are auxiliary ingredients for making moonlight ink, although the amount is very small, but to buy these two herbs, but it is not easy to meet, want to buy must go to the big city inside the large magic herb store, Kiger's moonlight ink The material is just short of these two auxiliary ingredients, originally she also wanted to configure the magic ink when you can cut corners, just like last time less Ning Shen flower, I also made the same scrolls, right?
Kiger said here, I asked her curiously: "Miss Kiger, you did not say to that minotaur that there is a saltwater pond not far from here?"
Kiger sitting next to me will be used to make the herbs in the herb packet of moonlight ink, according to the proportion of one by one, and then with me to hold aggrieved said "how I did not say? I told him that there is a pond not far from there will definitely have a stone salt mine, you can pick down a piece to take with you. But he said to me that this salt mine in the wilderness is very unusual, but only large livestock dare to drink such salt water, orcs drink it is easy to get sick, and told me that those stone salt mine are poisonous, and let me be careful not to accidentally drink the salty water in that kind of pond!"
I was a bit dumbfounded after hearing this, and I directly asked Kuz who was fishing for meat to eat in the haggis pot, "Aziz, you said that there is a shortage of salt on the Pai plateau, half of the salt is well salt brought from the Dwarf kingdom, and the other half is sea salt brought from the human kingdom, the reason why you don't produce salt on the Pai plateau is... ..."
Kuzi swallowed the morsel in his mouth, looked up and said to me, "The rock salt mines all over the Pai plateau are poisonous!"
I remembered that the last time I bought salt in Yemen Town, the price of a pound of salt was about twenty silver, and then I asked Kiger, "What is the approximate price of salt in the Grimm Empire?"
"Fine salt is about two silvers a catty, and for coarse salt, fifty copper plates! But selling salt privately is a serious crime, and is punishable by the gallows or guillotine. If you want to transport salt to the Pai plateau, you need to have a trade certificate and pay a high tariff, usually these things will be done, a catty of salt will rise to about ten silver, and with the high freight and losses, the salt dealers will sell salt into the Gurudin tribe for about 15 silver! Isn't that right little orcs?" Kiger said to me while counting on her fingers.
Her eyes were fixed on the various colors of magic grass smoke on the ground, very focused on subdividing the types, it seems that today she is going to configure the moonlight ink.
I asked Kurtz: "I mean, since salt is so expensive, have the magical apothecaries in your orc tribes never thought about how to use to extract and store the mineral salt?"
"How could they not? I don't know how many sages have been trying to use magic to refine better quality salt, there are many examples of success, but the cost is higher than the cost of buying from humans, all kinds of catalysts and fusion agents and a lot of charcoal, these things alone can be exchanged for a lot of salt, before the luxury goods in the human world did not enter the wilderness, our tribe has too many good things, just take out a bundle of magic The herbs can be exchanged for a vat of salt, no one has ever worried about salt! Only in these years, the poorer we are, the more we find that we can't even afford to eat salt, let alone make our own salt!"
"We do not have much salt, originally thought to prepare two pounds of salt in the wilderness is enough, did not expect that the minotaur finally offered to use a cold ice grass for a catty of salt!" The main reason is that there is no place to grow cold ice grass in the Green Empire, except for the snowy tundra where the barbarians live in the far north, the snowy mountains under the Pai Plateau of the Orcs and the New Siachis Mountains in the Dwarf Kingdom. The ice grass will only appear in the depths, and in the Green Empire this is worth almost a gold coin a plant. I can't help but say that Kiger is a great bargain, except I'm afraid the salt we brought with us was announced to be exhausted.
"At most ... at most when we make food in the future, try to put less salt, eat more meat food can also save salt ah!" Kiger already started to think how to save salt.
I kicked still in the soup pot to fish meat to eat Kuzi a foot, let him go will we cooked good magic antelope skin back, magic antelope leather cooked process to brush smear special magic potion, otherwise in the process of cooking, magic leather in the storage of magic will be greatly reduced.
Well, since we are talking about this, then we have to talk about what is the difference between ordinary leather and magic leather?
Yes! Magic leather is not necessarily stronger than ordinary leather in terms of defense, for example, the hard cowhide of the one-horned bison in the wilderness is more durable than the magic antelope skin, but the difference is that the bison skin cannot store magic power, the magicians can use the carving knife to draw magic spell patterns on the leather of the magic antelope, these successfully drawn magic spell pattern leather is a magic scroll, these magic scrolls can be put for a long time and will not But the ordinary bison skin, in fact, the magicians can also draw magic spells on the bison skin, but the magic spells drawn on the bison skin will evaporate completely in just half a day's time, leaving only a scratchy empty bison skin volume.
Katrina at this time crouched behind Kiger, with a grinder in grinding secondary moonstone, I felt in Kiger's belt pouch a bottle of magic stabilizer, and so Kuz retrieved the half-dried magic antelope skin, with a small brush will stabilizer evenly applied to the magic antelope skin, I hate the pungent taste of this stabilizer, this is the taste of kudzu's pulp, he laughed and hugged Kuz and said to him. "Brother I thought of another way to make money, when you take over the management of the Guludin tribe, when the big boss will write me a letter, then I will tell you how to lead your people to get rich, brother I definitely have high tricks in this area."
Kuzi skimmed his mouth and laughed nervously, raised his thick eyebrows and said with a sense of joy: "I have six brothers, I'm afraid I can't wait for you to get rich in this life, if I can become the big chief of the town of Guludin, not only must all my six brothers died in battle, but also need them to have no queen, but my elder brother's eldest son Kubandi with me in the same year, ah, and bravery, in our tribe In our tribe is also considered very powerful."
"Is that as good as you?" I asked him curiously.
"Haha, if it comes to hunting, it is certainly not as good as me, if it is a fight I can hardly beat him, my advantage is the entire wilderness, for me such as in any environment can survive the hunters, the entire northern foothills wilderness is my home!" Kurtz's smoothed out the magic antelope skin in his arms on the grass, cooperating with me to brush magic paint onto the skin.
Katrina saw us sorting three one-meter-square magic antelope skins, probably worried that I was overworked, having spent most of the day hunting at the pond and staying up late at night to paint magic scrolls, so she worriedly asked, "How many scrolls are we going to make today?"
"Do as much as possible, I do not know what situation we meet later, the conditions in the wilderness is not good, the orc hunters also have a very hard life, I think most of the people who can adapt to the environment here, have to drink raw water and eat raw meat, maybe a long time to eat salt, so that over time will be sick, we can help, try to help these people!" I'm not a sudden whim, kindness to do so, I just want to help the orcs through the immediate difficulties, and the simple orcs care more about equal exchange, they do not like to accept the gifts of others, perhaps so help others will bring us a greater harvest.
See Kiger at this time some face with shame, only to think that she has always cared about whether we can eat salt in the future, but also in their own only selfish behavior some self-reproach it. I turned my head and winked at her and said, "Don't worry, I've seen a very practical and simple way to make salt in the old orc magic parchment scrolls, and I can guarantee that at least in the wilderness we will have an endless supply of salt. Don't worry, I've got it!"
Kiger's face was slightly red and she glared at me and said, "Are you sure you can do this all night?"
"Miss Kee, can we not eat into a fat person in one bite?" I asked her with a bitter face.
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