"Ya, go and dig up two yams from the base of those vines for me. I want to eat boiled yams tonight!"

"Pick a few of those dark, unappetizing fruits up there too!"

As she walked, Lin Xue saw a strange plant. This plant was a vine covered with fist-sized, dark, speckled fruits.

Lin Xue observed it carefully and discovered that it was an enlarged version of the yam bean from later generations.

"Auntie, do you want to eat black fruit? I'll go pick some for you right now. But do you think the root of the black fruit is edible?"

The black fruit that Ya mentioned is the same yam bean that Lin Xue mentioned.

Because wild animals showed no signs of poisoning after eating them, the beastmen would also pick these yam beans as food for the winter.

However, they never imagined that there would be edible yam tubers at the base of the yam vine.

Because no one has ever thought of digging up the roots of these yams, they have not yet been discovered and eaten by the beastmen.

"Hey, this thing is called yam bean, but the yam growing on its root is even tastier than the yam bean!"

"Now that you're the chieftain of the Green Mountain Tribe, you should spend more time learning about the outside world from your mother. If you don't know this and that, people will laugh at you once you leave our Green Mountain Tribe!"

Lin Xue reached out and patted Ya on the shoulder. Poor orc, he had a lot of strength, but he was still living in the era of eating raw meat and drinking blood.

"Auntie, wait here for me, I'll go dig up two for you!"

Ya felt a little embarrassed by what Lin Xue said, but with his clansmen present, he didn't dare to show it too obviously.

With a leap, it transformed back into its beast form, its two claws moving like a fleeting shadow, digging a large pit in the ground.

After the two yams were completely peeled off, Ya transformed back into human form and carried out the two yams, which were four or five meters long and two or three meters wide.

Lin Xue once again felt the power of the orcs.

It takes more than just two paws to dig out a yam intact; that's a skill not everyone can possess.

"Ya, remember to fill the hole back in so that the other yams can continue to grow. Before winter comes, we can dig up the big yams in the ground and then we won't have to worry about going hungry in the winter!"

Lin Xue saw that Ya was carrying two pieces of yam over and had no intention of filling the hole, so she rubbed her forehead and couldn't help but remind her.

“Am is right!”

Upon hearing Lin Xue's words, Ya was stunned for a moment, then seemed to understand something, turned around and kicked the soil back into the pit.

Soon, the large pit was filled in.

Of course, the terrain won't be as flat as before, since the two yams are quite large, and the newly filled pits will look more sunken than other places.

When Lin Xue and the others returned to the tribe, there were already quite a few females standing at the tribe's exit, looking out.

"The chieftain and the others are back!"

"Thank goodness Xue is alright!"

Although the original owner wasn't well-liked, when real danger struck, the tribe members still didn't want anything to happen to him.

Lin Xue and the other two were surrounded by their clansmen and returned to the clan's main square.

They looked curiously at the sedan chair that Lin Xue had made, and the huge ginseng placed on it.

Many females also quietly approached Ya and asked him what the two pieces he had carried back were.

Surrounded by the crowd, Ya showed no sign of annoyance.

He patiently repeated what Lin Xue had told him to the tribespeople.

"Xue, is the root of this tree called yam really edible?"

Food is the most important thing for orc tribes.

Even the females who didn't usually like the original owner couldn't help but come over and ask questions at this moment.

"Yams are definitely edible, but before they are fully cooked, it's best not to touch the sap from the cut surfaces with your hands, as this will make your hands itchy!"

Lin Xue pointed to a small female yam that was poking at it with her hand. She wondered if the yam's ticklishness was as intense as it would be in later generations.

"It's just a little numb and itchy, but it's nothing serious!"

The little female who was poking at the mountain and yam with her hand carefully felt what Lin Xue said, and then spoke to the tribespeople.

"If it's only this bad, then it's not a big deal! Shall we have this for dinner tonight?"

The speaker was an elderly female Thorn, who was in charge of leading the females in preparing food.

"You can cook some meat first, and when the meat is half-cooked, add these yams in and cook them together!"

Lin Xue had already seen the two-meter-tall stone pot in the square, as well as the prepared animal meat beside it.

"Okay, let's try the yam that Xue mentioned today!"

After hearing Lin Xue's words, the older female instructed the younger females to move the two large yams to the stream and wash them clean.

Then she and the other females began putting meat into the large stone pot, and then they used a small stone pot to bring water and poured it in.

The fire under the large stone pot burned continuously. The orcs were very careful with their fire, and they would light bonfires in several caves to ensure that the fire in the tribe would not go out.

Once the fire goes out, they will have no choice but to eat raw food!

Lin Xue hadn't seen them add any other seasonings until the meat emitted a rich aroma and the yams were placed into the large pot under the direction of the older female.

She was a little puzzled. Even in the ancient world of beastmen, surely they wouldn't refuse to eat salt?

"Ci, is our tribe out of salt?"

Lin Xue walked up to the elderly female and asked her.

"We've already finished eating. The chieftain said we'll bring more animal hides to the Great River Tribe at the exchange meeting to exchange for some salt!"

Hearing Lin Xue's question, he sighed.

Although the warriors in the tribe have tried their best, the amount of salt they can exchange each year is still not enough to feed the tribe for a whole year.

Although they all knew very well that eating a little salty food would make the orcs stronger.

However, salt was only available to people from sea tribes.

They live very far from the sea tribes and can only get a small amount of salt from traveling merchants.

Even though the Qingshan tribe only eats salted food once every few days, they can't hold out until the salt is changed a second time.

"Wait here, I still have some salt!"

Lin Xue didn't want to eat food without salt, so she turned and walked towards her cave after saying that.

The original owner's cave was stuffed with all sorts of things, all of which she had forcibly taken from the tribe.

Most of them were cherished possessions of other orcs, which the original owner forcibly stole from them by taking advantage of being the tribal chief, Am.

Looking at the strange bones, teeth, and stones piled up in the room, Lin Xue frowned, feeling a bit of a headache.