Chapter 167
The old man scanned the surroundings like he was preventing thieves, then he quickly went into his house and packed up his stuff. He called out 'gu gua' twice; the originally silent frogs squatting in front of his door step hopped away individually. Some went towards the woods, while some went towards the river.
After finis.h.i.+ng packing, the old man then pulled Shao Xuan in another direction. While he walked, he also softly explained to Shao Xuan, "You want frog poison, and of course you would want the most toxic ones as well. My grandson can help you get them, any type you want, there will be."
The old man was afraid that Shao Xuan would change his mind and turn away; therefore he repeatedly kept talking to Shao Xuan.
He was also afraid that Shao Xuan would think it troublesome and visit other stores to buy them instead. After all, in the Pu tribe, quite a few people sell frog poison. Many of the Drumming tribe members liked weapons that were coated in poison; when they were buying them they would just wrap them up, throw them into their rattan basket, and pay with water moonstones.
However, what the old man wanted to do now was to bring Shao Xuan to collect them at their habitat. Compared with the others, it was a little more troublesome.
But in fact, Shao Xuan was not annoyed, as long as he could get what he wanted; being a little troublesome was nothing. Also, when he saw the thing that the old man sc.r.a.pped off, he was curious about it.
Previously, in the Flaming Horns tribe, when they went out hunting, the warriors would also like to use stuff that came from the animals. They liked using the poison to smear onto weapons such as spears, bows and so on. Among them were also different types of poisons, frog poison was the more common one.
And how the Flaming Horns tribe collected frog poison was that they would first kill the frog, then bake it with fire. When baking it, the poison would slowly seep out from the frog's glands.
After the frog's poison came out, all they had to do was just have the weapon rub against the frog, back and forth. The poison was then smeared onto the surface, thus achieving the desired result. For those frogs with more potent poison, the warriors only needed to wipe a little frog poison on their weapons and they could already go hunting. Generally, the beast that got struck with frog poison would die almost instantly. As for those more ferocious beasts, although they wouldn't die, it would still cause an impact on their actions.
"We're almost there, don't worry." The old man hurriedly said.
Shao Xuan was in no hurry, but rather, the old man was more anxious. He led Shao Xuan to a river nearby, looked at the river full of huge lotus leaves and shouted, "Yu, you there?!"
The lotus leaves on the river's surface floated along with the wind, the frogs in the river were calling out, but there was no voice from a human.
The old man started getting angry, his beard trembling, he shouted out once again, "Come out, I've already seen you!"
But there was still no response.
The old man took a deep breath, and hollered, "Get out! I know you're here!"
Finally, a response came from a lotus leaf not too far from them, "I'm here. Grandpa, what do you want again?"
A silhouette jumped up from a lotus leaf, after hopping onto a few more, he then reached the river bank. His vision swept past Shao Xuan, then turned to his grandpa, "Grandpa, what you want to sell you can go and sell, why did you call me? I was still sleeping!"
"Sleep, what sleep!" The old man's eyes bulged out almost to the point of dropping out anytime. "Come here. This young man from an outside tribe would like to purchase frog poisons."
"The tribe has so many other poison frogs, you can get them anywhere. Grandpa, I still remember your house still has a few bottles." Yu said while yawning.
The old man breathed in and mumbled. His arm reached out to the root of the lotus leaf and bent it over, "You come down! Sleeping all day, are you rus.h.i.+ng to sleep past winter?!"
Yu had no choice and jumped down from the lotus leaf. His eyes, that were half opened and looked like he had never slept before, turned to Shao Xuan, "You want to buy frog poison? What is it for?"
The old man swept a slap over, then turned back full of smiles to Shao Xuan, "Young man, what kind of frog poison do you want?"
Shao Xuan thought it over and said, "Can I see the frogs first?" He did not know if there was any difference from the frogs here and the Flaming Horns tribe's.