After seeing the iron tools made by Qiao Yu, Shan told Shu to find an opportunity to talk to Qiao Yu and learn blacksmithing from him.
Shu also knew that it was best to discuss this matter with family members. But now, seeing the baskets of ore, he couldn't help but ask Qiao Yu for a place.
He knew that many people were eyeing this position.
"Sure." Qiao Yu said with a smile, "As long as you're not afraid of hard work, it's no problem."
Even if Shu didn't tell her, she would still ask him.
Her uncle had taken good care of her, defending her even before she'd shown her true strength and become leader. He was quite capable. The blacksmith team was most important to her, and she needed someone from her family to be its leader. Even if Shu didn't volunteer, she would still nominate him.
"You'll be the captain of the blacksmith team then. I'll carefully select the team members," she said. "Think carefully about who will succeed you as the captain of the hunting team, and make a recommendation to me when you've made your decision."
Shu thought that he would just be an ordinary blacksmith in the blacksmith team, but he didn't expect that Qiao Yu would still let him be the team leader. He was overjoyed.
"Thank you, Yu. I will do my best."
When it came to the question of the successor to the First Hunting Team, he hesitated for a moment and asked Qiao Yu, "Qinglang has always had a very high opinion of himself. Now many people who are not as good as him have become team leaders or have been given important positions. If you don't use him anymore, he might cause trouble. What do you think, should we make him the team leader?"
Qiao Yu shook his head and said firmly: "No."
She knew Qinglang better than Shu. She also knew how much Qinglang resented her for her suppression. However, her authority in the tribe was too great, and her family couldn't leave the tribe, so they had to endure it.
Once he gets the chance, he will definitely cause trouble, either killing her or selling out the interests of the tribe to gain a new place for them to live.
If Shan's injury hadn't been intentional, perhaps she might have been more forgiving and given Qinglang a chance. But when Shan went to save Qinglang, Qinglang actually pushed him, causing him to be mauled by a tiger. If Shan hadn't been so lucky, he would have died instantly or later from his wound. And if she hadn't given Shan new hope, he would have died of depression.
After this incident, neither Huo nor Qinglang came to apologize.
Now she hasn't retaliated yet, so she forgives him just because Qinglang wants to cause trouble because he didn't promote him? Does he really think he is a genius and everyone in the world is his mother?
"But what if he wants to cause trouble?" Shu was worried.
"If there is trouble, suppress it violently." Qiao Yu said.
The more people there are in a tribe, the more conflicts there are. If the blue wolf causes trouble, it would be a good opportunity to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
"Yu, we're almost there." Someone in front shouted excitedly.
The tribe had set up a sentry post on the shore. Ye, who was on guard, also spotted them and excitedly ran out from his hiding place, waving at them: "You're back, you're back."
The other person quickly climbed the mountain and ran back to the tribe to report the news.
The raft slowly approached the shore. Ye looked at the baskets of stones on the raft. She didn't even bother looking for her husband in the crowd. She stared at them and asked excitedly, "Is this iron ore?"
"Yes." Qiao Yu jumped ashore and began to work with Ye to receive the wicker baskets that Shu and others handed over from the raft.
Yue stood on the raft, looking at Qiao Yu who was standing in a row with the men, passing the wicker basket. She looked puzzled and hesitant, not knowing what she should do.
"Yue, just stay there. Come down after you unload the wicker baskets on the raft." Qiao Yu shouted.
During the days she spent on the raft, she and Yue had chatted extensively. Qiao Yu learned that Yue was the daughter of a Water Tribe elder and had never done manual labor. However, the Water Tribe had lived on the water for years and knew how to build simple boats. Yue was quite proficient in shipbuilding, and Qiao Yu thought she was quite talented.
In the past, without iron tools, fine woodworking was difficult, and Qiao Yu didn't know much about boat building, so he only made rafts. Now that he had iron tools and the moon, the Dragon Tribe could build wooden boats.
After hearing what Qiao Yu said, Yue finally felt relieved and agreed crisply, "Okay." Then she sat down and waited obediently.
The raft kept shaking with everyone coming and going, and it was not easy to keep balance while standing.
After all the things on this raft were unloaded, Yue went ashore with everyone. The men lifted the raft and hid it in a nearby cave specially carved out to hide rafts. Then the next raft came over and began to unload the cargo.
Qiao Yu stopped being a porter and said to Yue, "Let's go back to the tribe."
"Yu, are you back?" Ahua's voice came from above.
Qiao Yu looked up and saw that all the young and strong women in the tribe had arrived. Seeing Yue's unfamiliar face, everyone looked curious.
Qiao Yu introduced them, "This is Yue. She used to be from the Water Tribe. Now she's joining our tribe."
Perhaps it was the wind, or perhaps it was Yue's beauty, but the men of the Sifang tribe were reluctant to brand her face with the mark of slavery. Beyond her beauty, Yue was no different from any other ordinary person. Qiao Yu didn't need to waste any more words on this matter.
The women of the Dragon Tribe all welcomed Yue's arrival.
Yue's anxiety along the way was now soothed by everyone's warm attitude. She greeted everyone with a smile on her face, bowing with the etiquette of the Water Tribe.
"You guys help unload the goods, we'll go up first." Qiao Yu said, picking up a load of ore, calling Yue to follow, and climbing up the stairs with brisk steps.
The old, weak, women and children of the Dragon Tribe all knew that they had arrived. They knew that the place below was not wide and it was not convenient to squeeze down, so they all waited at the top of the mountain.
Seeing Qiao Yu coming up with the ore, everyone greeted him and asked him, "Is this iron ore?"
"This is slag, and the iron ore needs to be selected from it." Qiao Yu explained patiently.
Yue, who was following behind, heard that the wicker baskets contained "iron ore". When she remembered that each raft seemed to be loaded with more than twenty baskets of ore, her heart was filled with shock.
Could it be that the people of the Dragon Tribe went to the Sifang Tribe not to exchange for salt, but for these slags?
She and her sister were captured and taken to the Sifang Tribe, where they were taken away by Ji You's younger brother, Ji Er. She overheard Ji Er discussing this and learned that the bronze sword she held was made from ore smelted at a smelting site outside the tribe. The slag was the discarded ore after smelting.
Now the Dragon Tribe has gone to great lengths to get these slags back, and also mentioned iron ore. Could it be that there is an ore here that is more powerful than bronze ore?
If that's the case, then is there hope for her to avenge the Water Tribe and her sister?
Her eyes sparkled as she looked at Qiao Yu.
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