"Knife currency can indeed be used for transactions, and it’s very convenient. Everyone, look, this salt and this pottery bowl were bought with knife currency."

Since this is the Vine Tribe, Huo Meng wasn’t worried about the salt and pottery bowl being snatched. He took them out for everyone to see.

"It can really be used for transactions!"

"Why don’t we go exchange some knife currency too?"

"No rush, let’s wait a bit. Aren’t there other people who went in with knife currency? Let’s see first."

"That’s right, the Frog Tribe is a subsidiary tribe of the Vine Tribe. What if they connive together to cheat us?"

The crowd erupted in another round of chatter, but they clearly weren’t planning to just believe Huo Meng. They wanted to see if others could also trade goods using knife currency.

Before long, others who had exchanged for knife currency also came out of the trading area.

They too were surrounded and interrogated one by one.

When everyone found out that all the people who exchanged for knife currency could trade for goods in the trading area, many finally began to believe that knife currency truly was a good thing.

Soon, more and more people started bringing goods to exchange for knife currency.

There were also some who didn’t want to exchange for knife currency, and the Vine Tribe didn’t force them; they continued to carry their goods inside for trade as before. Get full chapters from novel·fire.net

In this way, the difference quickly became apparent.

Those who didn’t exchange for knife currency had to carry their heavy goods into the Vine Tribe’s shops, painstakingly count them, and then exchange for the goods they needed.

Whereas those who had exchanged for knife currency could leisurely carry small and easy knife currency around the trading area shops, conveniently exchange for desired goods directly with the knife currency without waiting.

Those who hadn’t exchanged for knife currency secretly regretted it after seeing this, deciding to exchange knife currency next time before entering.

However, there were some stubborn individuals who insisted on carrying goods for barter transactions, as holding small knife currency didn’t give them a sense of security compared to carrying large bundles of goods on their shoulders.

When evening came and the trading area closed, Jiang Xuan instructed Dong Kui to count the knife currency quantities once more.

Dong Kui carefully counted the three types of knife currency and then looked up.

"Chief, only eleven small knife currencies were taken away. Most of the knife currency was exchanged for goods."

Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "That’s expected. Most people don’t have trust in knife currency yet and don’t dare leave the Vine Tribe with it, fearing it might become useless in the future."

"Don’t worry. Sooner or later, people will discover that knife currency is not only money but also very sharp small knives. When that time comes, more people will choose to exchange for knife currency and take it back with them."

"Once they start trusting knife currency, even using it for transactions among themselves, the Vine Tribe will be able to acquire a wealth of resources through the knife currency system!"

Dong Kui found Jiang Xuan’s words somewhat difficult to understand.

But she had great trust in and even fanatic admiration for Jiang Xuan, so she believed that whatever Jiang Xuan said would certainly come true in the future.

The next day, the Vine Tribe continued to recommend to those coming to trade to first exchange goods for knife currency and then use the currency to shop in the trading area.

After half a month of such promotion, the surrounding tribes and wanderers near the Vine Tribe all recognized the knife currency as a treasure.

In the process, they learned a few new terms, like "money," "shopping," "balance scale," and the like.

There were units such as "jin," "sheng," "dou," and "rice," which some began to learn as well.

More absurdly, over time, some people who had been to the Vine Tribe trading area began to develop an inexplicable sense of pride because they had learned many new things there, things other tribes didn’t have.

Whenever they returned to their tribes and vividly recounted the fresh things from the Vine Tribe trading area, they could always earn some looks of admiration.

On March 8th, while the Vine Tribe was vigorously developing the trading area to strengthen the tribe’s power, something that delighted Jiang Xuan occurred.

The Old Witch had returned!

A loud eagle’s cry echoed in the distant sky, causing many tribespeople in the Vine Tribe to lift their heads.

They were all too familiar with this eagle’s call!

Within the Vine Tribe, a purple Fierce Bird excitedly flew into the sky upon hearing the eagle’s call.

"It’s the Old Witch’s giant eagle!"

Jiang Xuan, who was planting things in the yard, excitedly raised his head, then put down his hoe, opened the yard gate, and ran towards the Old Witch’s residence.

"The Old Witch has returned!"

From another yard, Chi Shao, who was teaching apprentices to recognize herbs, also put down the herbs and quickly left the yard, hurrying with Jiang Xuan to the Old Witch’s abode.

Soon, the silhouette of the black giant eagle appeared in the southern sky of the Vine Tribe. It slowly descended and landed in the Vine Tribe.

Tang Yuan circled the giant eagle excitedly a few times, expressing its longing.

"Whish whish whish..."

Finally, the giant eagle landed, settling on the empty ground beside the house where the Old Witch had lived.

On the giant eagle’s back, the Old Witch looked at the familiar Vine Tribe, feeling utterly at ease.

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Huo Meng took the small beast hide bag and grinned, since even a small beast hide bag had considerable value. Usually, they would have to carry their own beast hide bags over, otherwise, they had to use goods to trade for a beast hide bag.

Afterwards, Huo Meng went to the tool shop and exchanged a small pottery bowl with a piece of knife currency.

"Only one small knife currency left,"

Lowering his head in contemplation, Huo Meng muttered, "It is small, but it should be suitable for skinning beast hide and cutting beast meat. I’ll take it back and try it first. If it’s not useful, I’ll exchange it for something else."

Huo Meng made up his mind, putting that small knife currency into the beast hide bag he carried, even wrapping it with a piece of torn beast hide— after all, it’s a treasure.

As Huo Meng reached the trade area entrance, he was immediately surrounded by a group of people, being the first one to exchange for knife currency and complete the trade.

"Chief Huo Meng, how is it? Can the knife currency really be used for transactions?"

"Chief Huo Meng, is knife currency easy to use?"

The crowd peppered him with questions. Many of them knew Huo Meng and wanted to hear from him whether knife currency was as good as the Vine Tribe claimed.

"Knife currency can indeed be used for transactions, and it’s very convenient. Everyone, look, this salt and this pottery bowl were purchased with knife currency."