Struggle in the Steam Age

Knowing that it would take a while before the formal talks could begin, Lawrence and his delegation immediately became busy. The doctor immediately started the free clinic work at the entrance of the big house, and the agricultural technicians and mineral geological prospectors, accompanied by the tauren, went to the surrounding area to conduct mineral surveys and surveys of agricultural water and soil conditions.

Lawrence, as the head of the mission, naturally did not take time off. Instead, they chatted with the leaders of the tauren about the situation of the surrounding tribes, and after talking, a few people talked about the ancient ruins they found.

"Are you talking about those stone roads and piers?" As a shaman, the white-haired tauren listened to Lawrence's question and thought for a while and said, "If I infer that there is nothing wrong, these stone roads and The wharf should be a contemporaneous product of the group of buildings in the hilly area."

"Hills?" Lawrence subconsciously raised his head and looked at the rolling hills behind the stockade through the window, and then keenly discovered that the vegetation on the hills behind the tribal buildings was obviously wrong. Because there should be many varieties of normal tropical rain forest trees, and they look messy. But the vegetation behind this tribe is a bit too neat and uniform, and it looks more like the result of partial manual intervention.

"You found it too." When Lawrence looked back, the tauren shaman said, "The hilly area behind us is probably the plantation that someone built here before, but I don’t know why they ended up Give up this land and let everything be submerged in the tropical rain forest again."

"Don't you know the source of these things?" Lawrence felt a little curious after listening to the tauren shaman's words, because these tauren people have been in this place for hundreds of years. In theory, they should know everything around them. Correct.

"Of course I don't know." A smile appeared on the face of the tauren shaman, "These things have been standing in this place for a long time before we came, and we also discovered this hill after a little bit of exploration. A series of important traces left by those people before."

"For example, in the middle of this hill, there is a ruin that looks like a temple. If you are interested, we can accompany you to take a look at—" Finally, the tauren shaman said A news that made Lawrence quite interested.

In this world, temples are the easiest building to judge civilization, because different temples have different characteristics, even if an abandoned temple is not destroyed too much, future generations can pass the temple. The lines, pictures, sculptures and other clues can easily determine what civilization was here before. So after a simple meal, Lawrence and Nora walked into the hill under the leadership of a tribal hunter.

This hilly area is very safe, because these tauren people have regarded the hilly area as their heartland since they settled here. Therefore, as long as they have time, they will send a large number of people into the hilly area to clean up everything that may happen to them. Threatening creatures.

So when they followed a path to the depths of the hills, they saw nothing except the scattered plants on the soil slopes on both sides, and the occasional sheep or rabbits, no beasts, no goblins. Not even those ferocious and dangerous supernatural creatures as imagined, the whole journey is like traveling.

Probably because the idleness is extremely boring and the surroundings are not so dangerous, Nora is not so cautiously staying with Lawrence when entering certain dangerous areas, but happily flying around, just like the same Like a happy bird, it flew to all the surrounding places to spread joy.

Of course, Nora's basic vigilance is still there. For example, where she flies, she is satisfied with the place where she can see Lawrence and Lawrence can also see herself. Neither party will let the other party disappear from her eyes. Moreover, on the other hand, Nora's flying around is also a way of patrolling.

"Brother, look what is this?" The little doll Nara flew to a tree and picked something off, then looked down, and then flew towards Lawrence at the fastest speed, while flying, Lawrence's name was still in his mouth, and he waved the hand that had just picked up the pile of things from the tree.

"Let me see." When Nara flew up to Lawrence and opened her hand like a treasure, Lawrence lowered her head and looked at the doll's open hand. As a result, she saw a thin branch placed in her white and translucent palm like a jade carving, and on the top of the branch were a dozen thumb-sized, yellow-green olive-shaped leaves.

"Is this tea?" Lawrence took the leaves and looked at it, then held it under his nose and sniffed and asked, because these leaves do look similar to popular beverage tea, but they smell the sum total. The real tea is quite different. Not only does it lack the fragrance of tea, but it smells strangely sour.

"Ah, this thing!" Looking at the branches that Lawrence was holding and the leaves on the branches, the tauren hunter who led the way in front thought for a while and said, "We tauren call this thing a little Bitter leaves are usually boiled and drunk by themselves or mashed and then mixed in feed and fed to cattle and sheep. After eating, it can cure some diseases of us and the animals we raise, such as poor diet and lack of appetite, such as Some minor headaches and brain fever."

Having said that, the tauren hunter slapped his forehead as if he was thinking of something. The intensity made Lawrence a little worried that he would shoot himself with a concussion. But fortunately, things didn't change as he thought. The Tauren Hunter quickly said some things he knew.

"Actually, the first batch of humans we saw was what we called Xiaokuye, which was what they called tea." The tauren said a news that shocked Lawrence. "But they finally gave up this kind of thing after tossing for a while, and never mentioned it to us again."

"I think it might be because the tea leaves taste wrong." After Nara heard that this thing was edible, she pulled two leaves from the branch and put them in her mouth to chew ~www.ltnovel.com~ and after chewing, She probably understood why this kind of tea, which is a kind of tea that should be drunk in peacetime, had no reputation at all.

"What's the matter?" Lawrence also found it strange. After all, he once asked the Tauren about what you can sell in it. The Tauren did not tell him that there is tea here, but he insisted that the Tauren wanted to hide the tea. If it exists, it seems obviously unreasonable for them to come over so directly.

"These tea leaves are bitter and astringent. I can guarantee you 100% if this thing is processed into tea leaves, the brewed tea will make the human tongue tingling after only two or three sips."

Nora's answer also made Lawrence realize the reason why the tauren did that, because although this thing is tea, it is not very suitable for human consumption. Therefore, the humans who discovered this batch of tea trees did not take this thing seriously, and the tauren did not take this thing seriously. So when Lawrence asked the Tauren what valuable products were in their territory, the Tauren didn't think of these tea trees all over the hilly area.

"It's really an empty joy." Lawrence shook his head helplessly. He thought he could make money by selling tea after discovering the tea tree in the morning. Now it seems that this plan is not working.