Chapter 30: What a huge black pearl! I've struck it rich!

  Mo Ye made a cold dish of seaweed and a soup of seaweed and chicken by herself for dinner. She first scalded the seaweed with boiling water, then mixed it with salt. Mo Ye suddenly thought that if she dried the mushrooms and ground them into powder to put in the soup, the flavor would be even better, so she told Chu Xiang that tomorrow when they go out to find mushrooms, bring some back. Chu Xiang agreed happily and helped Mo Ye cut the chicken strips with a stone knife on the side.

  At night, I made these two dishes and cut the fish into small pieces to pan-fry with oil, so that while it was hot, there was almost no fishy smell. So tonight all the family members ate fish meat and seaweed soup as well as cold mixed seaweed.

  When Haisen arrived, Moyi and the others had already finished dinner, but they left a portion for him in a clay pot. After tasting it, Haisen was amazed and kept telling Chuyan that there must be a very clever person among their clan's internal descendants. And he also revealed his intention to exchange relatives.

  This is how it was in this era, both sides would exchange women with each other's consent, or even use food as an exchange, as long as the men agreed, women actually had no status. But Mo Yier was different, Chu Yan firmly refused this matter.

  Haisen didn't get angry, and had to say, he was a very good-tempered leader. This made Mo Yier even more curious, how could such a gentle person have such a daughter? Was it that her mother had an affair? This was also very possible, in this primitive society without moral integrity, the probability of this happening was especially high. So in the following days, Mo Yier always felt like there was a green hat on Haisen's head.

  Mo Ye'er was a generous person, so she shared her culinary skills with the women of the Haimu tribe and asked for their help in weaving grass baskets.

  The women of the Hai Mu tribe were also very generous, and they immediately agreed. Mo Yi'er then stated her requirements for the grass baskets. The women of the Hai Mu tribe said it was no problem, as weaving grass baskets was their specialty. As a result, early the next morning, Mo Yi'er received over a dozen large grass baskets, each capable of holding several hundred pounds of goods.

  "Thank you so much!" Mo Yuer excitedly said, pulling on the hand of one of the women from the Haimu tribe. The woman was made to feel very embarrassed, her face turning bright red and looking very cute. There were more people in the Haimu tribe than in the Kanbu tribe, with nearly forty people in total, including over ten women. It seemed that last night they had all participated in weaving grass baskets.

  On this day, Chu Yan still took the people from the Kankan tribe to go hunting. Mo Yier went to the seaside at low tide to continue picking seaweed, busy and happy. After picking a big pile, when she wanted to take it back to the leaf shed, her foot was suddenly clamped by something, and she cried out in pain.

  "It's an eight-legged monster, don't move, Mo Yier, I'll help you kill it." A short and thin man from the Haimu tribe said to Mo Yier, then picked up a stone and smashed it with a "crash" sound.

  "Hey, don't waste it." It turned out that the eight-legged monster that the man from the Haimu tribe was talking about was actually a crab. Mo Yier had been immersed in the joy of discovering a large amount of seaweed and had forgotten that at low tide, there were still many things that could be picked up on the beach.

  "Huh? What's wasted?" The short and thin man looked at Mo Yuer in confusion, had she discovered something good?

  "What you're talking about, this eight-legged monster is edible and delicious!" Mo Yier took one look at their appearance and knew that although they lived by the sea, they had never eaten crab before.

  "How does an octopus eat? Its shell is too hard, can't bite."

  Mo Yu'er wiped the black line that had appeared on her forehead: "As long as you crack open the shell, you can eat the meat inside. Just like animal fur, remove it and eat what's inside."

  "Ah, so that's how it is! There are many octopuses by the sea! If they were edible, there would be a lot more food." The short and thin man was delighted. He was a skilled fisherman from the Haimu tribe. Men from the Haimu tribe were generally shorter and thinner than those from the Kankan tribe, possibly because they often ate fish, which is why they weren't as strong as the Kankan people who ate forest animals.

  During the day, the women of the Haimu tribe were busy drying fish and then came to pick seaweed with Mo Yier. They followed Mo Yier's advice and dried them for winter soup. Now Mo Yier was going to catch crabs again, and they actually followed her, it seemed that Hai Sen had instructed them before.

  Mo Yu'er not only caught a lot of big crabs on the receding tide, but also various shellfish. In the past, the Hai Mu tribe had given up eating them because they couldn't crack open the shells, which made Mo Yu'er laugh and cry at the same time.

  Today's harvest was truly not small, near dusk, Mo Yi'er actually found a black clam as big as a ceramic pot. This is not the key point, the key point is that inside the clam there was actually a black pearl the size of a fist.

  My goodness, a natural pearl, and it's black, it's actually this big, I've struck it rich!

  Mo Ye'er held the black pearl in her arms like she had found a treasure, and didn't care about the various seafood, shellfish, and crabs she had found with great difficulty today. She hastily ran towards the thatched shed, where Chu Yan and the others had already returned. Seeing Mo Ye'er like this, they all asked: "Mo Ye'er, what's wrong? Don't panic!"

  "Haha, Hei Zhen Zhu, look!" Mo Yi'er presented the black pearl to Chu Yan and the others, but their faces didn't show any expression. Ba Jin spoke up with his thoughts: "It's just a slightly rounder black stone, what's so special about it?"

  "Damn it, Mo Yier was so angry that she almost vomited blood. "Hey, this is the Black Pearl, do you know what the Black Pearl is?""

  "What's the use?"

  "This..." Mo Yier was stumped, she only knew that pearls were valuable, and big pearls were even more valuable. But what's the use... wait, let her think for a moment. "Hmm, I thought of it, pearl powder can be used for beauty treatments." However, it seems like all pearl powders are white, so can this black pearl be used for beauty treatments? Mo Yier was not very sure anymore. Chu Yan and the others were even more confused, they didn't understand what beauty treatments were, nor did they know what pearl powder was.

  Anyway, Moyi'er is going to keep this pearl. Even if she puts it beside her when she sleeps, at least it proves that she's a woman with great 'wealth'.

  "Mo Yi'er, Mo Yi'er, your stuff!" A short and thin man came to deliver the things that Mo Yi'er had left behind by the sea. He was enthusiastically shouting her name at the door. Chu Yan walked over and took the things from him. "Thank you!"

  "Nothing, where's Mo Yi'er? I still want to ask her how to eat this eight-legged monster and what shell." The short and thin man kept looking into the leaf shed, searching for Mo Yi'er's figure.

  "I'll let her tell you later." Chu Yan took a step forward, blocking the short man's line of sight.