Chapter 637, Inexplicable Confidence

Translator: Silavin

 

“Shaman, how should the Central Market be built?” Sha Lan asked curiously. Although the location had been determined, she did not know exactly what should be done.

 

“There’s no need to specially build it. When we built the cement houses, I deliberately left out a spacious area. We just need to set up a shelter there.” Su Bai said.

 

Building a Central Market was the easiest thing to do, and it was not necessary to deliberately construct a building for it.

 

When planning the construction of cement houses for the Flame Dragon Tribe, Su Bai had deliberately asked people to leave a relatively spacious position in the middle.

 

This was to prepare for establishing a Central Market in the future, but that place was not particularly large either. It was somewhat smaller than the square.

 

However, that place was not completely in the middle either, since there was already the Yong’an Building and the square in the centre.

 

The reserved position was at the front left of the Yong’an Building. In front of Yong’an Building, the left and right areas were specifically reserved for building shops or the Central Market.

 

The two areas behind the Yong’an Building were focused on being used as residential areas.

 

Those two areas were places that people from other Tribes could not approach, because the houses in those two areas were all situated very densely.

 

“I see, so that large empty space was meant to be the Central Market.” Yan Hua suddenly understood.

 

Yan Hua had been puzzled at the time, wondering why cement houses in some places were situated very densely, while in other places there was a large passage left between the houses.

 

“Shaman, should we just build a large shelter there?” Sha Lan asked.

 

Sha Lan needed to clarify this point so she could instruct others to do the work.

 

Building a wooden shelter was not difficult; the main thing was to see exactly where it should be positioned and what the specific characteristics should be.

 

“Yes, leave the ground floors of the two rows of houses as shop fronts, continue having people live on the second floors, then use the ground floor as a boundary line. Put up a row of wooden posts and cover the top with dry straw.”

 

Su Bai put down his teacup, took out a quill pen and paper, and continued. “This way, a shelter is formed. It can shelter from the wind and rain and also provide shade from the Sun, so people can go to the Central Market to trade at any time.”

 

He drew a simple diagram on the paper. Although it was drawn quite simply, it allowed people to understand at a glance what was being depicted.

 

“This method means that not only can things be placed inside the shop fronts for people to trade, but things can also be placed on the street too.” Sha Lan immediately saw the benefits of this arrangement.

 

“This place will definitely be very lively in the future.” Yan Hua could already imagine future scenes.

 

“Yes, this place might become the liveliest place in the future.” Su Bai smiled.

 

He thought the same. The Central Market would definitely have people coming and going, and this reserved position was also to prepare for adding new goods in the future.

 

After all, the Flame Dragon Tribe could not possibly only have the current few types of goods; there would definitely be more varied goods in the future.

 

To ensure that future goods could be directly displayed for trade, corresponding positions needed to be reserved.

 

Current items like linen, ceramics, and perfumes could be placed inside the shop fronts. If future items could not fit in these shop fronts, they could be displayed on the street.

 

In any case, once a shelter was built there, it meant carriages could not enter. Anyone wanting to enter would have to get off their carriage.

 

“Shaman, our current items include linen, ceramics, perfumes, and some other things. Should we also display food?” Sha Lan asked.

 

Sha Lan felt that since they were creating a Central Market, the items inside had to be diversified.

 

“We won’t display dried meat and such things, as there is no novelty to them, but we can display some fruits.” Su Bai said.

 

The oranges, tangerines, and grapes grown in the greenhouses could be said to have had a great harvest.

 

Apart from the grapes used for making grape wine, oranges and tangerines could not be stored for too long.

 

Now that the Central Market had not been established yet, some could be distributed to people in the Tribe to eat.

 

Once it was established, these fruits could naturally be displayed for trade too.

 

At that time, these fruits could be traded for some edible dried meat. Compared to fruits, people of the Flame Dragon Tribe might prefer meat a bit more.

 

After all, they had all tried what fruits tasted like. As long as people from other Tribes still did not know the taste of fruits, they might find fruits novel and more precious.

 

These fruits were different from the berries in the forest. Just their appearance and taste alone surpassed those berries by several levels.

 

“That’s exactly what I was thinking. Those people definitely haven’t seen these fruits before.” Sha Lan immediately said.

 

Because not only had Sha Lan not seen such fruits, even the Chieftain had not seen them, and the Shaman had further verified this point, These fruits were not available anywhere else.

 

Su Bai actually was not very certain either, because he had not been to every place in this Primitive World.

 

Perhaps other places had these oranges, tangerines, grapes and such, so he could only say they were not available anywhere else.

 

“Apart from these fruits, the wheat wine and grape wine we brewed before can also be taken out to be traded.” Su Bai said.

 

Actually, wine was one of the goods he particularly wanted to promote, because this era did not yet have wine as a beverage.

 

Wine was exceptional. Those who liked it would love it dearly. If the impact when displayed was significant, it would undoubtedly earn a good reputation for the Flame Dragon Tribe.

 

“Oh right, we brewed so much, we can definitely trade it for lots of dried meat.” Yan Hua remembered the wheat wine they had brewed before.

 

Su Bai gently sipped his tea and asked. “Have you tried the wine?”

 

He was rather curious why Yan Hua was suddenly so certain as he knew she had not tried it before.

 

“I believe everything the Shaman makes will be very popular.” Yan Hua suddenly had an inexplicable confidence.

 

However, this confidence was not groundless, because every single item made before had been amazing. So, Yan Hua’s confidence was grounded.

 

“Hahaha… so that’s how it is.” Su Bai laughed heartily and continued: “Since that’s the case, let’s bring all the wine over and we’ll all try the taste.”

 

Having said this much, and since there was more than enough wine, it would not make sense not to try it.

 

“Of course.” Yu Ying immediately had the attendants go fetch it.