After the Thousand Gold Grain Seeds were fed with fearsome beast meat, they seemed to dislike the meat. Two more plants died in the field. Seeing this, Qi Qi and the rest threw a few pieces of fearsome beast meat on the ground.
If Shao Xuan wasn't an elder, Qi Qi and Quan Bai would have teamed up to criticize him. They thought that Shao Xuan didn't care about the Thousand Gold Grain Seeds. In fact, Shao Xuan didn't care much about it. Plus, he had been busy deciphering the cloud patterns, so he didn't pay much attention to the seeds.
Shao Xuan had eaten the Thousand Gold Grain Seeds before and felt the benefits it brought. However, he didn't think the benefits were that amazing. There were at least three plants in the Taihe tribe that could compare to it. Plus, the way they planted it was much simpler and the harvest was better.
If the Thousand Gold Grain Seeds they produced were like what Shao Xuan had eaten before, it wasn't worth it. The tribe didn't rely on farming for a living. Every time they went out to hunt, they could get medicinal plants and fruits. Why would they put in so much effort to plant these Thousand Gold Grain Seeds? Plus, hunting fearsome beasts was very dangerous. No one in the tribe would be willing to risk their lives just to get a few seedlings.
As for Qi Qi and Quan Bai, they had never tried it before. Who knew if they would still be as passionate after experiencing such hardships and tasting the Thousand Grain Gold?
One day, Shao Xuan rubbed his tired eyes and walked out of the house. He walked into the yard and saw the Thousand Gold Grain Seeds that he hadn't seen for a few days. Suddenly, he stopped stretching.
He wasn't sure if it was because of the competition, but even with the supply of fearsome beast meat and fertilizers, one or two plants would die every once in a while. Now, there were only 34 plants left. Each plant was almost as tall as Shao Xuan's shoulder. He didn't know when they would be able to plant.
What surprised Shao Xuan were the leaves of the Thousand Gold Grain Seeds. They were wider and longer than Shao Xuan remembered. Each plant was thicker than the ones he saw at the top of the mountain surrounded by rats.
He held a needle-like leaf between his fingers and felt it. It felt different.
Was it because the conditions were better? Was that why they were stronger?
If that was the case, would the grains they produced have stronger medicinal properties? Would they be more beneficial?
Shao Xuan checked the other 30 plants. Every plant that was still alive had bigger leaves than the ones Shao Xuan saw. According to Qi Qi, they were still growing and would grow taller. He didn't know what they would become by then.
If the harvest was better than the effort, he could continue experimenting with the seeds he had left. If the losses outweighed the gains, Shao Xuan would keep some and feed the rest to the tribesmen. Who knew how long those grains would be effective? He didn't ask Ji Ju. Here, even the experienced Taihe people couldn't tell him.
Shao Xuan flicked the needle-like leaves and said softly, "Let's see if you can give me a satisfactory result."
It had been almost half a year since the beginning of winter last year. Their progress was significant. They had finally touched the "door". They were slightly better than the ancestors of the Taihe tribe. After all, they had absorbed their results and thoughts. However, there was still a certain degree of difficulty in opening the door. Shao Xuan was stumped.
It was as if he saw the door and desperately wanted to open it to see what was behind it. However, there was a lock on the door and Shao Xuan didn't know how to open it.
"It's so hard!" Shao Xuan sighed. He went out and walked around the tribe.
After talking to Duo Kang and Guang Yi, Shao Xuan understood that the shamaness and chief had sent a team to the coast where Shao Xuan came from. When Shao Xuan brought his people there, he left a group to guard the coast. Every once in a while, the shamaness and chief would send another group to exchange with them. Then, they would continue to observe the coast. They only wondered if there would be a day when there would be a change on the coast that would make them happy.
After walking around, Shao Xuan saw Qi Qi and Quan Bai taking care of the thousand grain gold plants in the yard. They came twice a day. Sometimes, when the weather changed, they came more often. They even stayed on the mountain.
Because of the thousand grain gold, the relationship between the Taihe people and the Yanjiao people had improved. The Taihe people even revealed some of their 'secret techniques'. If the thousand grain gold plants could bear fruit that satisfied them, they would have to show their sincerity if they wanted more grains.
When Shao Xuan stepped into the backyard, he heard Quan Bai holding a scroll and talking to the Yanjiao people.
"Back then, our tribe's ancestors found the Dry Water Green here." Quan Bai's voice was filled with pride and satisfaction.
The 'Dry Water Green' was a type of medicinal herb. It grew in a special environment. It liked drought when it was young. It wouldn't germinate when it was wet. Instead, its seeds would rot. Once it grew to a certain stage in the arid land, due to the rainfall in the mountains, if a spring appeared in the growing area, the Drought Water Green would continue its second stage of growth in the water surrounded by the spring until it bloomed and bore fruit.
Because the seedlings, flowers and fruits were all green, the Taihe people named it the Dry Water Green. It was a good medicine for internal and external injuries. The tribe often traded the Dry Water Green from the Taihe people. The warriors would bring some with them when they went hunting.
It was said that most of the herbs planted by the Taihe tribe were found by the ancestors of the Taihe tribe many years ago. Then, after many generations of searching, they found the most suitable way to plant them. As for where the Taihe people found the herbs, it was always kept a secret. It was an important source of income for the Taihe people. They wouldn't tell anyone.
It was only because of the Thousand Grain Gold incident that they talked about it a little. However, some of the important parts were vague and did not go into detail.
Shao Xuan was curious. He leaned over to look at the scroll in Quan Bai's hand.
It was a map. More accurately, it was a simplified map. Before showing it to the Yanjiao people, Quan Bai personally simplified the original map and blurred out some details. It was like drawing a tree without leaves, only the trunk and branches.
But when Shao Xuan saw the lines on the scroll, his eyes twitched. This map … looked familiar.
After thinking for a while, Shao Xuan's pupils dilated.
"What are those curved lines?!" Shao Xuan asked.
Quan Bai was so engrossed in his explanation that he didn't notice Shao Xuan behind him. He was shocked by Shao Xuan's sudden question. He dared to show off in front of others but not in front of Shao Xuan. After all, the Thousand Grain Gold belonged to Shao Xuan. He had a favor to ask of him.
Hearing Shao Xuan's words, Quan Bai adjusted his expression and put on a smile. "Those are rivers. The thick ones represent big rivers, the thin ones represent small rivers. Here, this is the river in your hunting area."
Because in Yanjiao's hunting area, the rivers weren't drawn in detail. Quan Bai said that it was drawn a thousand years ago before the Yanjiao people came here. As for this small river, they didn't draw it.
Shao Xuan knew about the river that Quan Bai was talking about. When he was looking for the glowing stones, he heard about it from others. The river that they dug for the glowing stones should have been filled with water by now. It was just that it wasn't marked on Quan Bai's map.
Shao Xuan's attention wasn't on the small river branches. What he cared about was the thickest river and the few important branches that extended from it.
The main river was curved and only part of it was drawn on the map. The two ends weren't completely drawn. It was said that one end was the sea and the other was the center of the continent. But just the lines of the river were already of great help to Shao Xuan.
He had already solved one of the problems he faced while deciphering the cloud patterns.
Quan Bai was worried that Shao Xuan would ask about some secret things and was thinking about how to reject him. But when he heard that Shao Xuan only asked about the rivers and some unimportant geographical information, he heaved a sigh of relief. He didn't ask about the place where their ancestors found the herbs.
After getting the information he wanted, Shao Xuan patted Quan Bai's shoulder happily. "Thank you!" Then, Shao Xuan rushed back into the house.
Quan Bai was confused by Shao Xuan's reaction. He looked at the others and asked Qi Qi, "What's wrong with your young elder?"
"Who knows." Qi Qi didn't know what Shao Xuan was thinking about but she didn't ask. Even if she knew, she wouldn't tell the Taihe people. There were interactions between the two tribes but if it wasn't approved by the shaman and chief, they wouldn't talk about it. The matter that the Elder was thinking about should be quite important, so he couldn't tell anyone about it.
On the other side, Shao Xuan rushed back into the house and closed the door. He moved a stack of leaves to the left of the table. These leaves had cloud patterns drawn on them, but he couldn't decipher them. He couldn't even guess. But when he saw the lines on the map in Quan Bai's hand, he realized that the cloud patterns he couldn't decipher weren't words, they were lines! Lines that represented geographical locations!
When he reached a bottleneck in deciphering the cloud patterns, Shao Xuan stared at the cloud patterns on the cauldron. Even if he closed his eyes, he might not be able to draw the lines perfectly but he wasn't far off. Shao Xuan had memorized the patterns. When he was immersed in his thoughts for too long, he would automatically think about the cloud patterns when he looked at the map in Quan Bai's hand. That was why he could think of the things he couldn't decipher when he looked at the map in Quan Bai's hand.
He unfolded the stack of leaves and arranged them according to the pattern on the cauldron. Then, Shao Xuan took out a tree branch and tried to draw on the sand table. He removed the exaggerated or hidden lines and left the important ones.
The cloud patterns on the cauldron were actually a combination of words and drawings!
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