"What's wrong with you? Look at what you threw?" An angry roar exploded in Shi's ears, scaring Shi so much that the arrow in his hand almost shot somewhere else.
Fortunately, he quickly regained his composure and with a whoosh, the arrow shot out. Although it missed the middle circles, it stayed on target. This was considered a good result on a rainy day.
Seeing that he had hit the target, Shi ran back to the end of the team and stood there. Only then did he have the mood to look at the person who was being scolded over there.
"You're late for the queue, you can't shoot accurately with your archery, and you can't hit the target with your spear. People like you can't help us even if we go hunting. It's good enough that you don't hold everyone back. And you still have the nerve to share the dried meat. Living like you is a waste of dried meat. You might as well just die."
Team leader Zuo’s scolding was incessant.
Seeing that Daxue, who was being scolded, kept his head down and wiped his face with his arm from time to time, not knowing whether he was wiping away the rain or tears on his face, Shi felt very sympathetic towards him.
Mang, the team leader of their breeding team, was not required to come to training due to his disability. The other disabled people and women in the breeding team did not need training either, so they joined the fifth team during the morning training.
Shi liked his team leader, Mang. Mang was a very nice person and treated them very well. He didn't like Zuo. Zuo was always cursing. Sometimes, when he was late, he would kick people.
He also seemed to have a strong dislike for the people of the Stone Tribe and the Shanyin Tribe, and most of the people he beat and scolded were from these two tribes. Everyone had a lot of complaints against him, but they also knew he was from the Valley Tribe. Now, except for Ming, everyone else, from the leader to the team leader, was from the Valley Tribe. Yu's methods were too strong, and no one knew what would happen if they complained, so they dared not speak out against Zuo.
Because Zuo had a bad temper and was very strict with them, Shi usually didn't dare to say anything bad during training.
It was raining, so it was difficult for Zuo to hear their conversation. The snow was really pitiful, so Shi couldn't help it. He leaned close to Hui's ear and asked, "Why is Daxue always scolded?"
Hui was three years older than Shi, a talkative and cheerful extrovert. He was also a member of the breeding team. Unlike the more reserved Shi, he quickly became familiar with the members of Team 5 and knew a lot about them.
Gray Ghost glanced at Zuo slyly, then at the archery team. Seeing that it was still a while before their turn, he leaned over and whispered, "Don't you know? The people in the fifth squad are trying to curry favor with Zuo, giving him gifts from time to time. That way, when Zuo assigns tasks, he'll give them easier tasks and give them bigger pieces of meat."
"Daxue has so many people to support at home, and there's nothing to send Zuo off for. And he's always late, and he's not good at throwing or archery. Who else should Zuo blame if not him?"
"Ah?" Shi exclaimed in surprise when he heard Zuo asking someone to deliver something.
He quickly covered his mouth, glanced to the left, and found that he didn't hear it, so he felt relieved.
Seeing him like this, Hui knew why he was surprised.
He scoffed, "Do you think only our Shanyin Tribe has people like this? The Dragon Tribe has them too. It's just that people like Zuo are a minority. Most are good, like Mang. And Zuo only dares to target people from the Giant Stone Tribe. Because we have Ming, he's worried Ming will complain to Yu, so he only dares to curse a few times and doesn't dare to treat our Shanyin Tribe like he did Daxue."
"Stop talking, it's our turn." Suddenly someone next to them pushed the two of them and ran out.
Hui and Shi quickly shut up, followed the man and ran a few steps forward, ready to shoot arrows.
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The training ground for each team is on this open space, but each team chooses a corner so as not to interfere with each other.
Qiao Yu stood on the platform, watching the actions of each team from afar through the rain. Then she got off the platform and walked to each team, watching them one by one.
She looks at the spirit of each team, the performance of each player, and the performance of the team leaders.
She saw everything that Zuo from the fifth team did.
Qiao Yu's face looked very ugly.
When the team leader was chosen, because the people of the Stone Tribe were captives and the people of the Shanyin Tribe had not yet been incorporated, the team leader could only be chosen from the Valley Tribe. Zuo was strong and had some brains, so with the recommendation of Lu and others, she chose him as the team leader.
In addition to him, there was also the captain of the fourth team, Ye, who was appointed even though Qiao Yu was not very familiar with him and was recommended by the elders.
During the snowy season, when he led these teams to the Dragon Tribe to carry out infrastructure construction, Qiao Yu had observed several of the team leaders and found that while Zuo Henan's performance wasn't particularly outstanding, it was still passable. At least they didn't dare to beat or scold their team members like that.
She hadn't expected Zuo to develop to this point in the month she'd been away from the tribe. And this was right in front of her and the others. She had no idea what would happen when she went hunting or working.
However, since they were in the middle of training, the matter had not yet been clarified. Moreover, as Zuo was the team leader appointed by her, it was not appropriate to reprimand him before the situation was fully understood. Qiao Yu planned to call a few team members to inquire later.
She stood there and watched for a while, not knowing whether he had scolded them before or had seen her. Except for scolding the team members when they were slow, he did not beat or scold them again. Only then did Qiao Yu move to another team.
Squad 6 was near Squad 5. Yan, the squad leader, did a pretty good job, saying a few words when a team member was slow or shot poorly, and although his tone was high, his attitude wasn't bad.
He would also train along with them.
Qiao Yu noticed that his accuracy was quite good whether he was throwing or shooting arrows, and he was considered the best in the hunting team in using weapons.
No wonder he wanted to go hunting instead of staying in the tribe as a carpenter captain. A teenager should prefer the more exciting hunting activities rather than the boring carpentry.
Seeing that it was almost time, Man blew the bamboo whistle and the morning training ended.
"Those who have hunting missions should go out hunting. Except for the carpentry team, the women's hunting team, and the breeding team, everyone else should gather."
The rain was almost stopping. Qiao Yu watched everyone gather and then led them to the mountainside.
"Starting from here, all the way to the river, you need to dig a channel this wide..." Qiao Yu gestured, "and this deep. I plan to divert the river water in and isolate the enemy on the other side of the river."
"But if the enemy can make a raft, they can also come from the other side of the river." someone said.
When Qiao Yu took a look, he found that the person who was speaking was Dian.
She nodded. "So, you guys dig the mud from the river and make it into mud bricks. We'll build a high wall on the riverbank near the tribe. Even if they have boats and can cross the river, they won't be able to climb such a high wall."
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