Chapter 728: Borrowing an Office

Changle also successfully found a plant he felt was relatively suitable, growing in a rock crevice; its branches were not tall, even somewhat twisted, but the leaves were good-looking. Although it was not currently flowering or even bearing fruit, the hunters also said that the fruit of this plant was very good-looking, a very beautiful blue.

Based on his own research, Changle felt it should be some kind of honeysuckle. The name "honeysuckle" was given by Baifeng, because Japanese honeysuckle also belongs to the honeysuckle family, so the name "honeysuckle" had been set by Baifeng early on. Changle, based on this, sought out more plants of the same kind, then classified them all into this honeysuckle family, and then further refined the species.

Changle transplanted it back, then asked the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe to help him fire a strangely shaped pottery flowerpot. The people of the Xuanyuan Tribe had never made such a thing, but Changle personally molded it out, and they only needed to fire it.

Changle was willing to pay a certain price for this, but in the eyes of the people of the Xuanyuan Tribe, if they had to charge grain for this, it would seem a bit too harsh, and not like something a brother alliance could do. So, the Worker who fired the pottery took it upon himself to waive this fee; it was just some mud, after all, and the kiln was so big that one could just find some corner to stuff this flowerpot into, and he was unlikely to be punished by the Xuanyuan Tribe for this matter.

Changle also collected some other plants, and when he brought them back to his room, he would conduct detailed research and identification. During this period, he had gone out twice and had already discovered several new species. Although most were plants he had seen specimens of and already classified, the time was long ago, and having only seen them once, he felt all the species in the Xuanyuan Tribe were very novel and unfamiliar. There were many plants he couldn't even name, and even as the progenitor of botanical classification in this era, he couldn't even name their families.

Because the room given by the Xuanyuan Tribe was truly too dark for him, sometimes he would choose to go outdoors, or work directly in Cangjie's room. Cangjie's room could be said to be the best in the entire Xuanyuan Tribe right now.

Even Xuanyuan's room was not that good. Huaxia was also building a house for Xuanyuan, but because the house Xuanyuan needed was relatively large, it had not been completed yet, and only a small part could be put into use.

And it was impossible for Changle to go to Xuanyuan's home to conduct this research; after all, that was the Tribal Chief's home, and there would certainly be a large amount of confidential information. Even if Xuanyuan let him go, he could not go.

Cangjie's home was much better, spacious and bright, with tables and such all complete, and all paper and pen tools available. The work they did was also relatively similar, so it was a very good working environment.

Of course, Changle did not run to Cangjie's home from the beginning; it was only when Cangjie and the scholars of Huaxia wanted to find Changle to help solve some problems that he went over. As the person closest to Baifeng, Changle certainly knew the specific meaning of many things that ordinary people did not quite understand.

For the meanings of some characters, Cangjie and the characters of Huaxia could not correspond at all, and when they were shelved or thought that it could only be so, Baifeng happened to come to Huaxia. With a perfectly suitable helper, they naturally needed to make use of him.

Changle also lived up to expectations and solved some of them. For the rest, having Changle's example showed that there must be a way to solve them, and they could just summarize them and contact Baifeng when the time came. To make it more convenient, a Huaxia official asked Changle: "Prince, I don't know how much free time you usually have; can you come here to help us solve these problems?"

Cangjie also knew that Changle was a very learned and intelligent person. With his help, their work would certainly be able to end faster, so that he could extricate himself from his current work and carry out the next step of character promotion, so he also invited him earnestly.

Facing such a working environment, Changle was naturally very tempted. Although it was completely incomparable to his own in Huaxia, it was already top-tier in the Xuanyuan Tribe, so he also put forward his own conditions: "I hope I can find an area here to conduct my research. As long as you have matters that need to be solved, I can help you solve them at the first opportunity, how about that?"

Hearing that he only needed a place, Cangjie naturally agreed without a second word. After all, when this house was first built, the design scale was very large, with a row of houses; he had a place to live, and the office space was even larger, because it was considered that the Xuanyuan Tribe would store a large number of documents in the future.

In the future, the Xuanyuan Tribe might not have so much paper to use, so bamboo slips would also need a place to be stored. This room, even if another table were added for Changle, would be completely sufficient.

Those sons of Xuanyuan would also go to find him every few days when Changle was free, to discuss some things they wanted to know, or knowledge they were interested in.

Xuanyuan's sons and daughters, Changle only now knew, were far more than the few he had seen before. Those few were just older and were boys; if daughters were added, there were probably more than twenty.

Changle hadn't seen many of Xuanyuan's daughters yet, but he had already seen one, Nvba, who was also a very capable female Soldier. In Changle's view, she seemed to be much stronger than her mother, Chinv, and she also had a high reputation in the Xuanyuan Tribe; she was a powerful Soldier.

Changle also felt the boldness and enthusiasm of the women of this era. Ordinary people might still consider things more, but those girls with higher status didn't care about that much. Marriage between two brother tribes was not a big deal; like Leizu, it could also be considered a marriage between the Xiling and the Xuanyuan Tribe.

Anyway, in this era, just listing a few examples, there were too many. Xuanyuan's concubines, except for Momu, were all important figures in some tribes, because they all had clans. It was not like Baifeng, whose two wives were both very ordinary women, or even of low birth.

Baifeng did want to bestow surnames upon the two of them, but they no longer had tribes, or rather, their maternal brothers—what was the point of giving them one?

Chinv was a bit better; at least her former tribe still existed, and she was not alone. But for Sui to have no surname as the Primary Wife, and instead give Chinv a surname, it did not conform to the rites and laws of Huaxia, so this matter was just left unsettled. It would depend on whether Baifeng could encounter a more suitable opportunity in the future to give them both surnames.

Changle now often encountered many women he didn't know expressing their love. Fortunately, they were about the same age as him, which kept him from having a breakdown. If a woman who already had a child came to him, he would probably have to let his guards push away any woman attempting to get close to him.