As Li Long finished his milk tea and prepared to leave, Harimu began loading things for him.
Like a steward of the Jia household, he took stock of everything he would be bringing back this time.
The heaviest items were seven pieces of jade river jade. The largest was the size of a soccer ball, the smallest the size of a fist, and all were of excellent quality. Five of the seven had no black spots at all and looked beautiful.
The bulkiest items were six deer antlers, each with at least four tines. The largest had eight tines; Li Long had no idea how an antler could grow so large.
The most comfortable items were a thick stack of hides. Li Long knew a fair bit about them now: there were deer hides, roe deer hides, and wild mountain goat hides.
There were also two pairs of Siberian ibex horns. One was relatively fresh, with a little dried meat still clinging to the skull, while the other was old, with a fairly intact skull.
Both pairs of Siberian ibex horns had more than sixteen growth rings. They had been old goats.
There was a bag of dried snow lotus flowers. In this respect, Li Long greatly admired these herders: they took only the flowers and did not dig up the snow lotuses by their roots.
There were two sections of velvet antler, neither very long, dried, and weighing about three kilograms altogether.
These things alone filled the cart. Though they were not heavy, they looked like a great deal.
While loading the cart, Harimu made a point of leaving Li Long a place to sit.
Finally, he took out a small object and handed it to Li Long.
"We found things like this by a river in the mountains,