Everyone in the Black Rat Tribe was astonished. They had never expected the Chieftain of the Han Tribe to possess so many things. Then they looked at their own tribe: everything the other tribe had, they lacked. They could only trade even a Pottery Pot with the Han Tribe using people.
After lunch, Luo Chong led people to the Brick Kiln to move bricks again. The kiln had been cooling for a day and a night, so it was time to take the bricks out.
All the adults, including the people they had just traded for that day, went into action. They pushed thirty small carts, moving the Blue Bricks out one cartload at a time, then loaded fresh brick blanks into the kiln.
As a result, Big Mouse sent his ten followers over to help as well, under the grand pretext that they could not freeload on the Han Tribe's food and should do some work too.
Wasn't he just trying to steal the technique? Luo Chong did not care in the slightest about Big Mouse's little scheme. If merely loading a kiln once was enough to learn how to fire bricks, he would write "Luo" upside down. Free labor was still labor, so why not use it? Thus, Luo Chong did not refuse.
Big Mouse and the Rat Shaman stood beside Luo Chong, marveling at the miraculous tool known as the small cart. Yet they could not even imitate a Woven Basket at present. Big Mouse asked, "Chieftain of the Han Tribe, can you trade these small carts to us?"
Luo Chong was taken aback when he heard that. After thinking for a moment, he said, "We can, but what will you use to trade with us?"
"This, this..." Big Mouse was instantly rendered speechless. Indeed, they could