Work points, the precursor to currency, originated from the Xia clan of the forest...

As spring arrives, new farmland is born on the grassland.

In the fields, the humanoid beastmen removed the harnesses from their beast-like kin and pushed the plows away to place them.

The newly cultivated land has been plowed, and the beastmen who are doing farm work take out the seeds that Lan and 022 have selected and plant them in the corresponding areas.

Thanks to the new farming tools, the beastmen were able to cultivate the land and plant crops much faster than before the snow season. However, the area cultivated this time was two to three times larger than that cultivated in the last fruit season, and the beastmen were once again exhausted and could hardly stand up straight.

But thinking of the harvest during the fruit season, not one of the beastmen, who were exhausted and howling, uttered a word of refusal.

The fact that they could get enough food to fill their stomachs just by working hard made them feel like they could plow another field (the unit of measurement for farmland set by Lan)!

As for the farmland cleared before the snow season, it was left idle after one harvest. The growth of short-term crops depleted a lot of nutrients, and those fields would not be planted with other crops until the fall.

Unfortunately, the snow season had just ended, and the first group of Xia clan orcs and Hati and his wolf-orcs who went out hunting hadn't returned yet. The clan had run out of leftover bones and other items to compost, resulting in a severe shortage of fertilizer.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Yunlan would not plant crops in fields with insufficient fertility.

The eggs brought back from the woods hatched during the fruit and snow seasons, and the pheasants raised by the tribe also hatched their chicks. The entire enclosure was filled with various calls every morning, which didn't subside until nightfall. Fortunately, the enclosure was far from the residential area, so the beastmen slept soundly through the night.

The large egg that Yan Dahe found in a certain animal cave has also hatched; it is the same animal that Jiang Yunlan and 022 have seen before.

This type of animal has been found in the forest area; it is a wild beast that can be considered a medium to large-sized mammal when fully grown.

The three-eyed beast had a broad back and a head that could rotate 275 degrees. It had two webbed feet and wings, yet it could dive into the water. Jiang Yunlan always felt that it was some kind of mutated duck-like beast.

It has no feathers, no scales, and no horns, yet its agility and flight speed are the most formidable beasts Jiang Yunlan has ever seen.

Whether underwater or on the surface, they are excellent hunters.

"Hidden Feather Beast," was the name Jiang Yunlan used for it. Their nemesis was the tough-skinned, burly, and brute-force beast.

The Hidden Feather Beast in the clan was hatched by Yan Dahe himself. The first thing it saw when it opened its eyes was Yan Dahe, so it clung to him very much, like a cub following its mother, walking around Yan Dahe's feet.

The animals in the enclosure are still young and not yet at the age where they need to eat the most food. However, the Xia clan's orcs have already sent out a gathering team to find food.

Jiang Yunlan and 022 calculated the yield of each type of plant in the field and made a conservative estimate of this year's harvest.

After calculating the answer, she couldn't help but feel worried and sighed, "The cultivated land is not enough. Judging from the situation of the tribe, after the flowering season, we will still need about three fields of crops to ensure that all the vegetarian beastmen in the grassland can have enough to eat."

This is the amount shortfall even without a poor harvest. This year is also one in which gathering and hunting are indispensable.

Hearing this, 022, who was perched on Lan's head, gently patted her forehead with her round hand and said in a steady voice, "Once the beastmen who went out brought back food, and the tribe's food reserves are enough, we will recruit more beastmen to work here."

Since arriving on the grasslands last year, Lan has intermittently established some units of measurement. One "field" of farmland can roughly produce enough food for ten adult argali beastmen for a year, or for nine grassland argali beastmen, or for eight horse beastmen.

"That's all we can do." Jiang Yunlan glanced at the beastmen diligently farming in the fields, then turned and went back into her house.

After a snow season, the Xia clan developed a point system.

Jiang Yunlan has not yet finalized a monetary system, and is temporarily using "work points" to replace the function of currency. Just like the beastmen and working beastmen of this summer, they rely on "work points" to exchange for food and desired items.

She distributed different rewards and work points to each orc based on their performance before the start of the flowering season. These were their initial assets.

The orcs moved out of the communal sleeping area and into the dormitory, where they had their own beds and desks.

The dormitory beds are "rooms" assigned by Jiang Yunlan to the Xia clan beastmen, and only the beastmen themselves have the right to use them.

The wolf-beastmen who didn't leave received work points and rewards, but they still lived in the communal dormitory without rooms, and had to hand in a certain number of work points every day. Wolf-beastmen who didn't want to live in the communal dormitory, like Hati, would choose to use more work points to stay in the only inn in the Xia clan and have a room to themselves.

In addition to the inn, Jiang Yunlan also converted some newly built houses and the "communal sleeping quarters" where the clansmen did not live into other places.

Two new canteens were set up in Xia, and the beastmen ate their meals there. Each day, a handwritten menu was provided for the beastmen to choose from. Can't read? No problem, the menus included simple drawings, allowing the beastmen to select their dishes by drawing.

As usual, the cubs were in charge of cooking in the canteen, while the adult orcs assisted by serving dishes and washing dishes. The tall, burly adult orcs were those who hadn't yet learned to cook.

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The clothing store displayed new garments, including basic styles that Jiang Yunlan had given to the beastmen, as well as new designs she and other beastmen had created for them to try. In her opinion, the new clothes couldn't be described as "good-looking" or "pretty"; they could only be described as pleasing to the eye.

She found the clothes ordinary, but the beastmen who worked with her to create them were amazed. They had never been demanding when it came to clothing, and this was their first time seeing clothes designed for them, so it was hard for them not to fall in love with them.

So when Lan said she didn't think it looked good enough, the clothing-making beastmen offered the best compliment they could think of in their lives.

They promptly hung the outfits in the clothing store. They were already beautiful enough; any more beautiful and they were afraid they wouldn't be able to afford them.

Jiang Yunlan looked puzzled, having never considered raising the price. Today was another day she couldn't understand her clansmen's thought processes.

Most of the orcs in the Xia clan's habitat already had warm-season cloth clothes and snow-season animal armor provided by Lan, so they shouldn't have needed to buy any new clothes. Yet, they still went to the clothing store. They were very curious about what the clothes Lan had mentioned looked like.

Upon seeing this, some of the orcs were attracted. They liked the simple, beautiful, and comfortable clothing.

The first orc attracted excitedly asked, and with enough work points, the purchase was successful!

On this day, some orcs experienced the joy of shopping, and their enthusiasm for work instantly soared. Orcs who didn't have enough work points hung their heads, watching enviously as other orcs bought the clothes they liked, and resolved to work harder.

Next time, I'll be the orc who owns it!

The beastmen, who weren't interested in clothes, strolled around the clothing store and then wandered off to other places.

The beastmen of the past had no sense of shame and could freely switch between beast and human forms. However, later, under Lan's tutelage, the beastmen became more careful about dressing properly. When using their beast forms, they would go to the dressing room before transforming into human form and obediently changing their clothes.

Even now, they are used to wearing clothes when they are in human form, and occasionally they will decorate themselves. They will wear animal teeth, ring with animal bones, and use the slime of liquid spiders to stick some flowers, grass or small stones on their clothes.

Far from hunger, cold, and death, the beastmen, in a daze, vaguely developed a pursuit of "beauty".

Besides food, they wanted to pursue something else.

Seeing the longing in their eyes that she still couldn't understand, Jiang Yunlan quietly opened another general store with everything she could want and placed a wish box there.

The former was used to fulfill the beastmen's desire to buy something, and the latter was used to understand the beastmen's troubles and wishes.

With the increase in the number of orcs in the habitat, the problem of furry creatures has also increased.

Would it be better to add two more mediators? Jiang Yunlan pondered, picked up a bamboo pen, and lightly dipped it in ink to write the position of "mediator" in the ranks of police officers on the paper.

Several different positions have already been determined on the rough paper. It is the list of positions for the Xia clan orcs that she and 022 have been working on and revising in the past few days.

Most of the positions are already filled by orcs, and only the official awarding of the position badges is pending. There are still a small number of positions that she needs to consider whether there are suitable candidates.

"We need to select a few orc teachers during this period, otherwise the school will have to close down," Jiang Yunlan said, rubbing her temples with her fingertips. She had grown tired of teaching the orcs and longed to get rid of teaching as soon as possible.

The beastmen were obedient and would diligently learn what she taught them. But she really didn't want to answer their endless questions anymore. 022 could answer them all, but she couldn't!

After the title "Teacher," Jiang Yunlan wrote the word "urgent" and circled it.

“The horse-beastmen have stayed in Xia, and the wolf-beastmen seem to want to stay in Xia as well. Lan, you can consider them when choosing teachers. I have seen some beastmen who have potential in this area.” 022 reached out and pointed to the word “teacher”.

Jiang Yunlan nodded and asked it who the orcs it favored were, then wrote down the names of those orcs on another piece of paper.

The wolf-beast people who said they would build a new habitat next to Xia did not set off today. The prey they bring back from their hunts will be given to Xia to serve as their food. Of course, they need to pay a little more for the cooks' labor and for cleaning the dishes.

Therefore, the wolf-beastmen do not use work points to buy food in the canteen, but instead use tokens to exchange for a fixed amount of food for each meal.

However, proper breakfasts, lunches, and dinners were not enough for the wolf-beasts. They craved Xia's other food and belongings, and were often seen at Xia's various work locations.

Having been explicitly rejected by Lan, they understood that Lan was the hardest person Xia could break away from; they couldn't. If they wanted to enjoy everything Xia had to do, they had to stay in Xia's habitat.

The wolf-beastmen of higher status in clans like Lup had also asked their chieftain, Hati, why he didn't want to join the Xia clan. The ram-beastmen and horse-beastmen had already joined the Xia clan, so one more clan wouldn't make a difference.

Hati didn't respond, lazily raised his eyes, and tossed them out of his room.

So the wolf-beastmen understood: their chieftain simply didn't want to join the Xia clan. The reason? Such a capricious chieftain wouldn't offer an explanation.

The equally willful wolf-beastmen simply ignored the matter of habitat, happily roaming around the Xia clan every day. If they hadn't stayed on the grasslands six snow seasons ago, they would still be a nomadic clan on the continent. They couldn't care less about habitat; a place to sleep was enough for them.

The wolf-beasts, who have a very open-minded view of everything, are playing with their companions today.

They've returned from their hunt and can now spend some more time with the Xia clan.