"Boom!"
Huo ng placed a beast hide bag on the table, then opened the bag, revealing a bunch of beast teeth inside, and said to Jiang Xuan, "Chief of Vine, how many knife coins can these beast teeth be exchanged for?"
Jiang Xuan said to the warrior beside him, "Pour them out and count them."
"Yes!"
The warrior imdiately poured out all the beast teeth and classified them one by one; so were relatively large, so small, so had good quality, and so poor, all needed to be sorted out.
After sorting, Jiang Xuan estimated their value based on the size and quality of the beast teeth.
Actually, although Huo ng brought a lot of beast teeth, due to the limited power of the Frog Tribe, most of the hunts were ordinary beasts, and these teeth were only regular beast teeth, so despite their quantity, their value was not high.
After estimating, Jiang Xuan said to Huo ng, "Chief Huo ng, these beast teeth can be exchanged for eight small knife coins."
Huo ng was taken aback because the small knife coins in Jiang Xuan’s hand seed too small, and such a large number of beast teeth couldn’t even be exchanged for one big knife coin?
Jiang Xuan guessed his thoughts, so he smiled and said, "Chief Huo ng, don’t underestimate these eight small knife coins; they can be exchanged for two large bags of food, or you can exchange them for things like salt or pottery."
Huo ng’s eyes lit up and said, "Then exchange them for right away."
Jiang Xuan smiled and then counted out eight small knife coins and handed them to Huo ng.
"Clink clink..."
Huo ng tossed the small knife coins a few tis, listening to their crisp sound, then headed to the trading area with them.
Afterward, many outsiders who trusted the Vine Tribe, as well as wanderers, ca to Jiang Xuan to exchange various items for small knife coins.
However, most people were still observing.
Being poor, they didn’t dare to risk their hard-earned goods, all wanting to see if after obtaining the small knife coins, others could truly purchase goods in the trading area.
...
In the trading area, Huo ng held eight small knife coins, looking at them frequently as he walked into the shops.
He glanced at each shop, hesitated for a mont, then entered the grain and salt shop.
"Welco, Chief Huo ng. Looking to buy sothing?"
Dong Kui, following Jiang Xuan’s instruction, warmly greeted the first custor of the day.
Huo ng looked at the small knife coins in his hand, then at the salt jars in the shop, and asked, "How is salt traded?"
"Chief Huo ng, three small knife coins can exchange for one jin of salt."
"How much is one jin?"
Huo ng had never heard of the weight unit "jin," so he was sowhat puzzled.
Dong Kui picked up a beam balance and then used a small beast hide bag to fill it half with salt, placing it on the scale plate. When she moved the weight rope to the "one jin" position, the scale beam quickly rose.
Dong Kui used a small shovel to scoop out so salt from the beast hide bag and weighed it twice more until the scale beam balanced.
Huo ng watched her operation with a confused look, not knowing what she was doing.
Fortunately, after the weighing, Dong Kui explained imdiately.
"Chief Huo ng, this thing is called a beam balance, made by our Chief. It is used to weigh the goods’ weight."
"See, we put the salt on the scale plate and slide the weight to learn the weight of the salt. For instance, if the weight slides to this position, it ans one jin; this position ans two jin..."
After explaining, Dong Kui handed the small beast hide bag with one jin of salt to Huo ng, saying, "Here is one jin of salt, and it can be bought with three small knife coins."
After hearing this, although Huo ng still didn’t completely understand it, he knew that three small knife coins could exchange for that bag of salt.
He picked up the salt and weighed it with his hands, showing a pleased expression on his face; based on experience, knowing that three small knife coins for one jin of salt was definitely worth it and way more convenient than directly coming with beast teeth for trade.
"I will give you six small knife coins, and exchange for two jin of salt."
Huo ng placed six small knife coins in a row on the counter.
"Okay."
Dong Kui weighed another jin of salt and then packed it in the sa small beast hide bag, handing it over to Huo ng.
"Chief Huo ng, today’s the day the trading area uses the new thod for transactions. You are the first custor of this shop. This small beast hide bag is a gift for you."
"Thank you, thank you!"
Huo ng took the beast hide bag, grinning widely because a small beast hide bag also held notable value, as they usually had to bring their own beast hide bags or use goods to trade for one.
Subsequently, Huo ng also went to the utensils shop to exchange for a pottery bowl using one small knife coin.
"There is only one small knife coin left."
Huo ng lowered his head and pondered for a while, saying, "It’s a bit small, but it should work for skinning beast hide and cutting beast at; let’s take it back and try it first. If it’s not useful, I’ll bring it back for an exchange."
Determined, Huo ng placed the small knife coin in the convenient beast hide bag, even wrapping it in a piece of tattered beast hide, as it was a treasure.
As Huo ng went to the trading area entrance, a crowd surrounded him imdiately because he was the first to exchange knife coins and the first to complete the trade and co out.
"Chief Huo ng, so how was it, can that knife coin really be used for trading?"
"Chief Huo ng, is the knife coin easy to use?"
"Chief Huo ng..."
...
The crowd asked eagerly, many of whom knew Huo ng and hoped to hear from him whether the knife coin was as good as the Vine Tribe had claid.
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