Before Lang Nini could speak, Su Tang pulled her down to squat down and began to carefully pick wild ferns.

"There are so many ferns here, let's pick them quickly, otherwise they won't taste good when they get old."

Wolf Nini felt a lump in her throat; Ah Tang was too good to her.

She nodded and squatted down to pick them as well.

Wild ferns come in green and brown varieties; the green ones are newly sprouted and tender, while the brown ones are mature.

Su Tang picked only brown ones. As she picked, she taught Lang Nini how to distinguish between wild ferns and weeds.

Wolf Nini learned very quickly and made almost no mistakes.

The three wolf cubs stood in a row, tilting their heads, their big green wolf eyes full of seriousness.

They also learned from their mother, using their teeth to bite the wild ferns and pull them out.

Heave-ho! Heave-ho!

The two people and three kids worked together!

They quickly picked all the wild ferns on the hillside.

Because Su Tang said that the ferns wouldn't taste good when they got old, Lang Nini was reluctant to pick them at first, but in the end, not a single brown wild fern could escape her grasp.

By the time we finished picking wild ferns, it was already noon.

The sun was hanging directly overhead.

Su Tang was covered in sweat, and the animal hide on her body was sticky.

Harvesting two crops in one day was already beyond her expectations.

Wolf Nini's animal skin bag contained a few wild strawberries, two-thirds of a large snake, and a large bag of wild ferns.

Once she got the hang of it, she was even faster than Su Tang.

Su Tang admired her for being such a capable worker.

Su Tang only picked a small portion of the basket, but it was already a lot, since she hadn't originally planned to take so much.

However, if she didn't want it, Wolf Nini would definitely overthink it, so she decided to take it back and taste what wild ferns from the ancient continent tasted like.

When they came down the mountain, Wolf Nini's animal skin bag was bulging.

The two had a great time and were in high spirits.

Because she needed to cook wild ferns, Wolf Nini planned to take her three cubs and Su Tang back with her.

The two men and three children were walking out of the tribe.

"Wolf Iron is back! Wolf Iron is back with the team that replaced White Stone!"

"Oh! Oh! We get to eat Shiraishi!"

Groups of two or three orcs with their cubs ran past, shouting excitedly.

"Wolf Iron is back?"

Wolf Nini was overjoyed. She knew that Wolf Iron was the orc who led the team to Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain to exchange for the White Stone.

"Great! They came back so late, they must have brought back a lot of white stones."

She hasn't eaten Shiraishi for a long time, and now she often feels weak in her limbs.

Last year, Wolf Qi only received a tiny bit of white stone in return. Wolf Nini was worried that he wouldn't have the strength to hunt if he didn't eat the white stone, so she gave half of her share of white stone to Wolf Qi.

As a result, after eating it, he had the energy to slack off and lie.

Wolf Nini now deeply regrets it.

The thought of being assigned to Bai Shi soon made Lang Nini quicken her pace.

Su Tang also wanted to go back quickly and plant the crops.

The three wolf cubs didn't understand anything; they were just happy. They rushed forward tirelessly, then ran back, circled the two men's feet a few times, and rushed off again, repeating this process...

Soon, the two arrived at the exit of the tribe with the cub.

The tribe's exit was blocked by a group of orcs.

A noisy commotion came from ahead. Su Tang pricked up her ears and sensed that the people making the noise weren't happy.

"how so?!"

"Where's Shiraishi! You've been gone for so long, how come you only brought back this little bit of Shiraishi!"

"Did you secretly hide Bai Shi?"

As the two approached, they realized that it was the orcs of the Gray Wolf tribe shouting and yelling.

Su Tang saw a middle-aged male covered in dust being stopped by a group of gray wolf orcs, some of whom even angrily grabbed his neck and questioned him loudly.

"Wolf Iron, tell me what exactly happened," the gray wolf leader, standing in the middle of the beastmen, spoke.

The other orcs quieted down and all looked at the disheveled middle-aged male.

So he was Lang Tie.

The males behind Wolf Iron were all more or less injured, looking extremely disheveled, even more so than when Su Tang's family fled here.

"I really didn't steal the white stone. It was an accident when I went to exchange the white stone this time."

Wolf Iron looked embarrassed and hurriedly explained.

"We had already acquired quite a few white stones, but the night before we were to return, a sudden upheaval occurred at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. Now, Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain has a new Beast King, and all our white stones have been... stolen away. We're left with only these..."

So many orcs, yet someone else stole the White Stone.

That's incredibly embarrassing.

The gray wolf leader looked at the orcs behind him, all of whom were covered in wounds, and each one looked worse than Wolf Iron.

It seems that what Lang Tie said wasn't a lie.

Upon hearing this, the orcs of the Gray Wolf tribe all turned pale.

If Shiroshi is stolen, then all the supplies they handed over will have been wasted!

Without White Stone this year, how will their entire orc tribe survive?

"How many white stones are left?" the gray wolf leader asked with a dark face.

"These are all we have..." Wolf Iron lowered his head and took out the only surviving bag of white stones.

The gray wolf leader's face darkened even further upon seeing this.

Is that all?

Each bag weighs only a few dozen kilograms, and on average, every four orcs in the tribe can only get one kilogram of white stone.

This is even worse than the worst time for the tribe!

Wolf Iron wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground, feeling both ashamed and furious. This time, they had no chance to secretly hide the white stone.

The worst off were the orcs who went to exchange for white stones, because they used to be able to sneak some, and in addition to that, the tribe would also give them some extra white stones as a reward.

So they didn't bring their own supplies at all.

After this trip, they were not only injured, but they also didn't get a single piece of white stone.

They are truly the most pitiful orcs in the Gray Wolf tribe!

The gray wolf leader took the white stone, frowned, and asked, "You said the Beast King of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain has changed? Who is the new Beast King?"

Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain is the largest tribe in the vicinity. Hundreds and thousands of smaller tribes rely on Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain to exchange for White Stones for their livelihood. Unexpectedly, such a thing happened this time.

"I don't know. It's said that the Beast King has changed twice already. The last time it was the Lion Clan, and this time it's the Tiger Clan," Wolf Iron replied truthfully.

The Beast King was replaced at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, but it was these small tribes who suffered the most.

The gray wolf orcs knew this was beyond their control and couldn't blame Wolf Iron, so they could only accept their bad luck.

Su Tang, however, found it strange.

The Beast King of Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain has changed. Why didn't you mention this when you came back, brother?

Could it be that my brother deliberately kept it from them to avoid worrying them?

Su Tang thought to herself, "I must ask about this when I get back."

Wolf Nini looked sad; as expected, she knew that changing Shiraishi wouldn't go so smoothly.

But then she thought, the other orcs lost large amounts of supplies, while she only lost a few animal hides at most.

Thinking this way, Lang Nini felt much better.