The project is huge, but it has many benefits. Once the road is open, it will save one or two days of travel time, making travel faster and more convenient.

Haitang knew she had cement and gravel and could build it quickly, but she hesitated for a second, wondering what to say. Haitang thought the cement road was good, but she didn't really have the ability to undertake such a massive project at the moment.

Haitang shook her head, not thinking too much about it. At this moment, Dongfang Chen also returned. Seeing that Haitang was still sitting, he took his notebook and sat down not far away to do his homework.

Haitang glanced at Dongfang Chen and walked over directly. Dongfang Chen looked up, and Haitang said, "Mom isn't forcing you. Mom just wants to tell you that if you have homework, don't procrastinate. Finish it as soon as you can. You study for yourself, not for Mom."

Haitang felt helpless. She wrote many things for herself, not knowing how much she could leave behind. She wanted others to pass on what she wrote, and children were the future of that legacy.

Upon hearing this, Dongfang Chen looked up and nodded, then reached out to hug Haitang. "Yes, Mom, I know..." Yes, he would be good.

While Dongfang Chen was doing his homework, Haitang got up to get something to eat. Dongfang Meng and the mermaid baby were both sleeping. They ate the food when they woke up.

During these past few days, Haitang waited for the Lion Clan and others to return. Before the Lion Clan and Leopard Clan returned, Huoqiu came to find Haitang and talked to her about some things.

"They robbed a lot of good things from the Flower Tiger Clan, and now they've come back triumphantly." Hearing this, Haitang nodded, but Huoqiu quickly frowned, looking somewhat conflicted.

"What's wrong?" Haitang asked, looking at Huoqiu. Huoqiu looked at Haitang and sighed.

"That's how it is. Our tribe's salt is all traded back from other tribes, and then sold to our own people. However, this time when we went to buy it, the other party asked for almost double the price." He said, looking at Haitang. Huoqiu was having a hard time.

Upon hearing this, Haitang couldn't help but frown. "Double the price." This was simply outrageous. Salt was already expensive to buy outside, and now it was even more expensive.

The Tiger Tribe is not short of money or resources, but these things don't fall from the sky. "Which tribe are we cooperating with?"

“The Elephant Tribe,” he said, looking at the crabapple tree. “There’s a large lake in the Elephant Tribe, and that’s where the salt is mined.” The Elephant Tribe supplies salt to many places.

The Tiger Tribe was just one of them. Now that the Elephant Tribe knew the Tiger Tribe was doing well, they naturally wanted to raise their prices. Haitang looked somewhat dissatisfied and asked, "So what do you plan to do? Don't the other tribes have salt?"

“Not much,” Huo Qiu said. Other tribes only supplied salt to their own tribe members and didn’t have much salt at all.

In fact, the Tiger Tribe didn't need to collect salt from outside at first. They only started buying it later when they ran out of salt to collect from outside.

Haitang sighed, "So we're going to be completely at their mercy? By the way, what do the Elephant Tribe buy the most from other tribes?"

"Medicine," Huo Qiu said upon hearing this. "The Elephant Tribe needs the most herbs, as well as grain." The Elephant Tribe mostly eats coarse grains.

Instead of meat, the food from the Tiger Tribe became what the other side needed. Moreover, the Tiger Tribe's restaurants offered a wide variety of delicious dishes, which led the Elephant Tribe to start incorporating those delicacies back into their menus.

"Should we raise the price too?" Huo Qiu asked directly, as if he had just thought of something, but Hai Tang shook her head.

"You said it yourself, the Elephant Tribe is the only tribe within a hundred miles that can provide us with salt. If we don't buy from the Elephant Tribe, our tribe will definitely be short of salt. Before we find a new place to buy from, let's not act rashly."

"Yes, I will." Huo Qiu nodded. The Elephant Tribe was insatiable and wanted to take advantage of the Tiger Tribe because they saw that the Tiger Tribe was doing well.

Haitang went to find the brothers of the group of first-year students and asked them where there was salt around. The children shook their heads.

Left with no other choice, Haitang had to go to Pengshan. She originally planned to ask Pengqi, but then smiled and said that if possible, she should ask Xiao first to find out the details.

School is about to start soon. Pengshan arrived a long time ago and is staying in the village. The school doesn't provide food now, so the students have to cook their own meals in the kitchen behind the dormitory.

When Haitang went to find him, Pengshan was preparing food. Haitang glanced at him and said, "Pengshan..."

“Principal…” Pengshan was surprised to see Haitang. “Principal, is there something you need?” Had he done something wrong?

He simply wanted to come to school to read more books. The school had a library, which contained only a few books, but they were all classics written by Haitang in her spare time.

Some are sold outside, while others are not; the pharmacopoeia is only available in school libraries.

Students can borrow books from the library, but they cannot take them out. They can also copy them down, and I copied some down to give to my father.

"There is something I need to do," Haitang nodded. The Roc clan was very far away from her, even farther than the Flower Tiger clan, but since they had wings, she wasn't too afraid of the distance.

"I want to ask you some questions. Where do you buy your tribe's salt?" Haitang asked. Pengshan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it wasn't because he had done something wrong.

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