Chapter 40 Small Tribe Scammed of Supplies

Bahan went to great lengths to finally trick the Black Goose tribe into returning all the supplies from the two tribes.

The Black Goose tribe leader was overjoyed to see the supplies that Bahan had tricked them into bringing back, supplies that their tribe could just come in handy with.

In front of all the Black Goose tribe members, she didn't hold back her praise, showering Bahan with compliments she couldn't quite understand! "You're truly amazing! These supplies will last our tribe at least half a month! If any of our tribe members were to obtain these supplies through hunting, it would take them at least a year to accumulate them. You're worth the efforts of many hunters from different tribes! You're truly incredible!"

“Starting today, I’m giving you a month-long leave as the tribal chief! You can do whatever you want! This is also a way of avoiding those two tribes! I hope the leaders of those two tribes are blind and don’t recognize that you are a member of our Black Goose Tribe!” Ji patted Bahan on the shoulder and said earnestly and meaningfully.

On the Black Deer tribe's side, Xu Que was skillfully splitting bamboo stalks into strips using a boning knife.

Hou sat cross-legged on the ground, his head resting on Xu Que's shoulder, and yawned impatiently: "What are you going to do now?"

“Baskets! I used to weave them with my grandfather! I wonder if I can still do it all by myself now!” Xu Que said before continuing to work.

He quickly heated the bamboo strips he had split with a boning knife over a fire, then arranged them into four units of twenty strips each, and five units of one hundred strips each. He then picked up the bamboo strips that had been slightly heated by the fire and began to circle or ellipse them along each vertical section of the "rice" pattern.

When you reach the bottom circle, which is about 50 centimeters in diameter, heat the vertical strips in the shape of the character "米" (rice) over a fire, then fold them upwards at a 90-degree angle. After folding all four sections, use bamboo strips to stack them upwards around the vertical strips, one in front of the other, until the opening is finished. And that's how you weave a basket!

Xu Que picked up the woven basket and looked at it, then closed one eye and glanced at it to see if the two sides were symmetrical.

He only considers something barely acceptable when he finds that both sides are about the same.

"Here! Put this big hat on and play with it!" Xu Que said, taking advantage of Hou's inattention to put it on her head.

This time, the entire body of Hou was trapped inside.

Hou didn't struggle in a hurry, but said calmly, "Go ahead and squeeze! Press me down! Just suffocate me!"

Seeing that Hou didn't struggle or resist, Xu Que took the basket that had been pressing on her head as a hat off again.

Xu Que used the same method to weave several in one go!

Seeing how neat, efficient, and practical Xu Que's finished work was, Hou was inspired to try and knit two or three pieces himself under Xu Que's guidance.

She couldn't help but marvel at her own craftsmanship, while also marveling at the wonders of nature: "Wow! This bamboo is so amazing! I suddenly realized that there are so many things that can be woven from bamboo strips!"

"Can we weave hats with bamboo strips? Bamboo sections would be a good choice for making water cups!" Hou said to Xu Que.

"Right!" Xu Que said, then neatly sawed off a section of bamboo, took out a multi-functional power drill from the system's inventory, changed to a smaller drill bit, and carefully carved the outside! He even made a particularly beautiful lid for the bamboo cup!

Needless to say, Hou naturally put this beautiful bamboo cup into his animal skin food bag!

Hagang led his elite armed forces members to practice training their warhorses with the tribe members not far from the entrance of the Julu tribe's cave.

Outside the gate of the Black Deer Tribe, more than a hundred primitive people, holding begging sticks, limped to the tribe's entrance.

The leader, Hua, was about to go with Xu Que to see how Ha Gang and the others were training their horses when Hou led Xu Que by the hand.

"Sister Hua, has something happened again?" Hou asked Hua, the leader of the Black Deer tribe, with a puzzled look.

"Yes! This group of cavemen came to seek refuge with us! I heard from their leader that they were tricked by a rather flamboyant-looking male caveman!"

"Here's what happened: A man who claimed to have won the gold medal at the Primitive Barter Conference several times promoted himself to these primitive people like this: I am a member of the Black Deer Tribe! Our tribe is recruiting a large number of laborers during this period! As long as you are in good physical condition, you will definitely be able to migrate from your tribe to a tribe in another state! Moreover, the Black Deer Tribe will provide very humane and compassionate humanitarian assistance to the tribe members who come here to escape!"

"All the supplies in our tribe were taken away by that person from your tribe who came to persuade us to migrate to your tribe! Before he left, he said he was from the Black Deer tribe!"

"Our entire tribe has trekked through mountains and rivers to reach your cave entrance, forced to make this desperate choice! We've run out of food! We're so hungry we can't sleep, that's why we've come to you!"

"By the way, can we enter your tribe now?"

"Can I answer that question later? Let me tell you clearly here, our Black Stone Tribe has never sent anyone to other tribes to promise that people from other tribes would be richly rewarded if they came to work for us!" Xu Que said to the leader who had been deceived and was almost completely wiped out.

"Ah! Have we been tricked? You really didn't send anyone to persuade us to join your Giant Deer tribe? If that's the case, then it just means our tribe has no choice but to accept our bad luck! Is there no way to recover our supplies?"

Yes, it is! But it might take a little longer!

"Since you have nowhere to sleep or eat, you can stay here with us for now! After all, someone is impersonating our Black Deer tribe, and you were fooled because you trusted our tribe too much! In a sense, we also bear some responsibility! Given your special circumstances, I will now go to the Black Deer tribe chief and ask her to make an exception for you, take you in, and bring all of you more than one hundred people under our Black Deer tribe's command! Are you satisfied now?"

"Thank you! I'm so satisfied! So satisfied! Being able to become a member of the Black Deer tribe is such a blessing that my family's ancestral graves must be smoking and burning!" said the tribe member who had been deceived by Bahan.

Xu Que approached the chief, "Hua," and poked her with his finger: "This tribe of over a hundred members was swindled out of all their money by members of other tribes! Now they don't even have a place to eat or sleep! I think our Black Deer tribe should just let them migrate into our tribe and become members! How about that?"

"Alright, alright! Brother God's words are law! When have I ever disobeyed them?" Hua smiled at Xu Que and said.