"Thank you for your hard work," she said gratefully.

"See if it's enough. If not, ask them to carve more. There are many people, and if each person carves a piece, it will be enough soon. Hurry up and build your building, so as not to let those old guys from the Shanyin tribe laugh at you." Shan said somewhat indignantly.

He was very unhappy when he heard that those people did not take their leader Qiao Yu seriously.

Qiao Yu laughed: "Okay."

Qiao Yu put down her luggage, drank two bowls of meat soup and didn't rest any more. She took several teams that had just returned from hunting in the mountains out, and went out to the fruit forest area. She dug holes and planted the saplings she brought from the Shanyin tribe.

"Yu, why did you dig up this kind of sapling and plant it?" Someone saw the peach sapling and frowned, "The fruit is inedible."

"This fruit is edible. But you have to wash the hair off it before eating it, and you can't just pick it up and bite it," Qiao Yu explained.

Near the Valley Tribe stands a peach grove. In spring, it's covered in pink blossoms, but the peaches are small, sour, and astringent. In the past, some people in the tribe would pick the peaches and eat them straight away, resulting in red bumps all over their bodies and nearly death. Therefore, even the greediest children in the tribe wouldn't pick the hairy peaches. Everyone in the Valley Tribe believed peaches were inedible.

These peaches are an early-maturing variety, ripening in June and July. By the time Qiao Yu arrived, the hairy peaches were already out of season. She recognized the tree and had inquired about its details, but she had never tasted them. This time, upon returning to the Valley Tribe, after confirming the peach blossoms were indeed the tree, she dug up the dozen or so saplings growing beneath it.

She remembered that fruit trees were improved through grafting. Hairy peaches like these, with their poor taste, were only suitable as rootstocks, and grafted branches had to be of good taste. Since the Dragon Tribe had a large area, planting a few peach trees was better than letting them take over with weeds and other trees, so she found a plot of land and planted them.

Now, whatever Qiao Yu said was true, no further explanation needed. The other party scratched his head, feeling foolish, and said with a smile, "Oh, so that's how it is. Then I'll try it when it bears fruit."

After planting the trees, Qiao Yu just returned to the residential area. Halfway up the mountain, he heard someone shouting, as if they were arguing about something.

When she walked over, she saw Man and Liushui standing in the middle of the crowd. A woman in her fifties was yelling at them with several other women. A dozen or so women were surrounding them, chattering at the same time, all directed at Man and Liushui.

Both this woman and the people surrounding them looked very unfamiliar. It was obvious that these women were from the Shanyin tribe.

Qiao Yu did not go in, but stood aside and listened.

After returning to the tribe, she washed her face, removed all her makeup, and changed into a fur coat. Standing among a group of women, even if Elder Ming and Elder Hui came, they wouldn't be able to recognize her at first glance.

After listening for a while, Qiao Yu finally understood what was going on.

Except for those of higher status, the Shanyin Tribe's members generally didn't possess ceramic bowls. Man and his companions had led these people all the way from the Sun Tribe to the Dragon Tribe, eating only dried meat along the way. Tonight was their first meal in the Dragon Tribe. To make the Shanyin people feel the warmth of the Dragon Tribe, Man had the women of the Dragon Tribe prepare several large ceramic pots of fish soup to share with the travel-weary Shanyin tribe. However, because the Shanyin tribe lacked ceramic bowls, the fish soup only lasted a dozen people before being divided up.

So Man told everyone that they could exchange dried meat for clay pots and bowls, and then everyone could cook meat or fish soup at home.

Finally, the women said that they had too much luggage and it was too messy to find the dried meat right away, so they asked Man to give them the ceramic bowls first, and then give them the dried meat after they found it.

Man has been helping Qiao Yu manage the tribal affairs for a long time, and he knows that once the pottery bowl is distributed, it will be difficult to take it back, or the corresponding dried meat back.

Thinking about it, these people came from the Shanyin tribe and brought all the dried meat from their homes. They would not starve without drinking one or two bowls of soup given by the tribe, so he rejected the women's request.

This stirred up a hornet's nest, and these people started to blame him, saying that the people of the Dragon Tribe had promised to let them eat and live the same as the Dragon Tribe people, but now they lived in a cramped place that was smaller than everyone else's and didn't even have a bowl of soup to drink.

Qiao Yu looked back and saw that the men from the Dragon Tribe who had followed her to plant trees had not left, but were standing not far away and watching, probably waiting for her instructions to deal with the women from the Shanyin Tribe.

Seeing her turn around, Cang, who was closest to her, quickly stepped forward and asked, "Yu, what should we do?"

"You go find the people who are participating in the trade fair and ask them to bring Elder Ming and Hui from the Shanyin tribe." Qiao Yu said.

Then she added, "All of you should disperse. Don't gather here, or these people will accuse us of bullying them by relying on our numbers."

Cang was very angry when he heard this.

What's wrong with bullying? The newcomers from the Shanyin Tribe, instead of just keeping their tails between their legs, actually dared to bully the Dragon Tribe. The Dragon Tribe has more people, so if a fight breaks out, the Shanyin Tribe will suffer. How dare they still make trouble?

However, he only dared to think about these words in his heart and did not dare to say them to Qiao Yu. He immediately turned around and beckoned everyone to follow him and leave.

In the crowd, someone repeated with a look of resignation on their face, "The original people in our tribe also exchanged for dried meat. The leader stipulated that only dried meat could be brought in exchange; otherwise, no one could take the pottery away without permission. The things you brought are mixed, and we won't be able to find dried meat right away. So, don't drink this soup today. We'll talk about it later."

"Why not drink it? Why do they have broth and we don't? This isn't fair."

"It's not that I don't give you water, but you don't have a bowl."

"Then give us the bowl first. We'll give it to you when we find the jerky."

A group of people kept going back and forth, talking about the same things over and over again, and the noise never stopped.

Qiao Yu did not go in to help Man and Liu Shui, but just stood in the crowd and watched the women make a fuss.

She knew very well that this was definitely done by Elder Hui again.

They had intended to negotiate terms before boarding the ship, but her unyielding attitude had forced them to do so. Now that they were at the Dragon Tribe, they were no longer afraid of pursuers, and knowing the tribe wanted them, they were unwilling to give in and began to demand treatment. However, they had originally boarded the ship with their tails between their legs, without proposing any terms, and now they were too embarrassed to personally cause a scene, so they let these women take over.

After all, women only care about trivial matters, don't they? If they win the fight against the Shanyin Tribe, they'll get benefits, and they can continue to fight and get more benefits. If the fight goes badly, Elder Hui and the others can come and apologize, scold them a few times, and the matter will be over. The people of the Dragon Tribe can't just arrest these women and beat them, right?

The calculation couldn't be better.