Chapter 114 Primitive Orcs 11
“Huh—huh—”
The wind and snow were so strong that small ice balls of snow splashed at the entrance of the cave, and were melted in the warmth inside the cave in an instant.
The orcs and sub-orcs in the cave were busy weaving bamboo baskets and bamboo baskets.
"Priest Yun, is this how it was written?"
"I think I made a mistake in this step. How do I stand it up?"
"Priest Yun, how do we finish this?"
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Xie Yunsui wandered around the demi-human world to answer questions, and from time to time he looked at the group of orcs who were chopping and roasting bamboo. He couldn't help but smile knowingly when he saw Xier and the little fox playing with a bamboo ball.
The little fox's body shape change was still unstable, especially since it had been hungry for many days and lacked energy, so it had been maintaining its beast form.
I just happened to make friends with Xi'er, who couldn't transform into a human form.
The wolf orcs were very good at demolishing houses. In just two or three days, they expanded the cave several times and even dug out several branch caves, so that everyone in the big cave could have independent rest space.
The wind and snow outside lasted for several days, the sky was dark, and the light inside the cave was only maintained by the fire, making it almost impossible to distinguish between day and night.
To prevent everyone from being too bored, Xie Yunsui taught everyone the bamboo weaving technique.
"I've finished it!" Chi Yu finished finishing the bamboo basket and couldn't help but exclaimed happily.
This bamboo basket is about half a person's height. It might be a bit difficult for a demihuman to carry it on his back, but it is just right for an orc.
This was the bamboo basket Hu Zhao asked him to make, and it is also the largest bamboo basket made by all the Asians who are currently engaged in bamboo weaving.
“What a huge bamboo basket!”
“It looks like it could hold a lot of stuff!”
"Wow! Chiyu you're amazing!"
Luo Bai looked at the bamboo basket with envy, then looked at the rag in his hand and felt a little discouraged.
My skills in tanning fur are so good, and I've even been praised by Priest Yun, so why am I so clumsy when it comes to bamboo weaving?
Hu Jiao also secretly cast an envious glance. In fact, he was not bad either. He learned how to weave a bamboo basket by watching Priest Yun weave twice. However, he was weaving a smaller bamboo basket and was just about to finish it, so he was not as fast as Chi Yu.
The Red Fox demihuman prided himself on being clever, and he thought he would be the first to finish.
Hu Jiao lowered his eyes, suppressed the urge to cough, and quickened his movements.
After Priest Yun gave him two bottles of herbal juice, he could feel that his physical discomfort had improved. He no longer felt heavy in his chest and unable to breathe when sleeping at night. The pain in his chest when coughing also eased, and he no longer felt like he had to cough out everything in his stomach.
Li Ya is a red fox, and he is not very brave in his beast form. He, Li Ya, and his cubs have never done anything for anyone, but they are accepted by everyone and have plenty of food every day. He really wants to show more of his abilities, abilities that are different from others, so that even if there is not enough food, he will not be driven out.
When sleeping at night, Fox Jiao was weaving bamboo baskets in the dark.
To save charcoal, they didn't have a fire at night.
Their red fox family has an independent small space. Li Ya changes into animal form for him to lean on, and the cub nestles on him, with the two furry creatures providing warmth in the dark night.
Li Ya listened to his movements and whispered, "Priest Yun said you need to rest more."
"I'll take a break after I finish weaving this bamboo basket."
"You can join everyone in weaving tomorrow. I've seen that no one has woven as many bamboo baskets as you have today. You have woven two."
"But Chi Yu wove a huge bamboo basket. I couldn't beat him. I could only weave a little more."
"No, in my heart, you are the best."
Hu Jiao couldn't help coughing twice, then covered his mouth, not daring to make any more sound. His eyes were red from enduring this. After a long pause, he said, "Li Ya, those wolf orcs and tiger orcs are both powerful and brave orc warriors. You won't be able to match them in hunting or other physical labor in the future. Only if I can do better than those demi-humans can our family stay."
Li Ya fell silent and felt very sad.
Among all the tribes in the entire Western Continent, the orcs of their Red Fox Tribe are the most useless. They are weak in beast form and not tall in human form.
Today, he couldn't split bamboo as well as the wolf-beast man, nor could he learn to weave bamboo. Although everyone had work to do, he could only do things like adding firewood and making soup.
Just like before in the tribe, Hu Jiao also had to work very hard to make salt so that his family could live a good life.
After a while, Li Yacai said, "Hu Jiao, I'm really useless."
Hu Jiao paused, turned around, stroked Li Ya, and said, "No, I believe you must have something you are good at, but we haven't discovered it yet."
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"I'll change the charcoal."
"These sweet potatoes are baked. I'll take them out first."
"The Luo Luo beast carrot soup is ready. I'll serve it out for everyone."
Li Ya's thin figure shuttled among everyone, serving everyone diligently.
Xie Yunsui looked at the evenly roasted sweet potato in his hand, peeled off the thin layer of burnt skin on the outside, and felt that Li Ya's control over the heat was really amazing.
The sweet potatoes he grew with energy were all very large. If they were to be roasted thoroughly, they had to be kept in the fire for a while. However, if they were left for too long, the burnt skin on the outside would become thicker, and the scrap rate of the whole roasted sweet potato could be as high as one-third.
Even when Zuyang, a very experienced sub-human, came to roast the sweet potatoes, there was still a thick layer of burnt shell.
But the sweet potatoes baked by Li Ya are amazing. The crust is very thin, but the inside is baked thoroughly and has a sweet core.
Li Ya first prepared food for everyone, and finally served herself a layer of soup base with little meat and radish. She squatted in a corner of the cave with a small sweet potato in her hand, and halfway through eating, she started to fiddle with the replaced charcoal ash.
"Li Ya, what are you doing?" Xie Yunsui walked over and asked.
Li Ya was stunned for a moment: "I didn't steal the sweet potatoes to eat."
Xie Yunsui raised his eyebrows. Shouldn’t a normal person’s first reaction be to respond directly to what they are doing?
He said, "I didn't say you stole sweet potatoes, so why didn't you eat with everyone else?"
Li Ya then said, "I'm roasting sweet potatoes for dinner."
Only then did Xie Yunsui notice that he had piled up the charcoal that was almost burned but still had some residual heat here, and buried under the charcoal were sweet potatoes that had been roasted in the fire for a while.
Stewed?
Seeing him staring at the sweet potatoes, Li Ya explained nervously, "I just think that if you bake the sweet potatoes this way, you can eat more of the flesh. Otherwise, it would be such a waste..."
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "You did a great job."
Even though it’s just a roasted sweet potato, the cooking technique required to control the temperature is very delicate.
He suddenly thought that maybe when the weather was better, he could take Li Ya to try burning charcoal. Maybe they could burn it better than he did himself.
No more orcs or sub-orcs came to the Forsaken Valley during this snowy period.
Perhaps even if there are those who are abandoned, they cannot get here.
Fifteen days later, the wind and snow finally stopped, and a ray of sunlight appeared outside the cave after a long absence.
Xie Yunsui breathed a sigh of relief. If the weather didn't clear up soon, he might have to take the orcs to collect ice in the wind and snow - if he brought enough broth for nine more people, the ice he had stored would be used up in short supply.
"Priest Yun, are we going out to look for food today?"
Xie Yunsui looked at the snow outside, which was so thick that it almost buried people, and said, "Let's clear the snow first."
The beastmen who had been staying in the cave for more than ten days transformed into their beast forms and went out to stretch their limbs.
Xier was in the front and disappeared as soon as he jumped into the snow pile.
The demihumans watched speechlessly at the entrance of the cave as a group of released orcs were released. In the past, they would never have imagined that there would be such active orcs during the snowy season, and each one of them was so majestic and powerful.
The orcs had enough to eat at every meal every day, and instead of losing weight, they gained a lot of weight.
The demihumans first cleared the snow from the cave entrance, and after clearing a small area, they heard the voices of orcs filling the valley.
"roar--"
“Ouch—”
Chi Yu frowned and looked over, seeing Xier fighting fiercely with Langfeng, and other orcs were also fighting each other.
"Priest Yun, they are fighting!" Chi Yu hurried to find Xie Yunsui, hoping he could stop them.
Xie Yunsui was just telling Hu Jiao and Li Ya to come out and bask in the sun instead of working. Upon hearing this, he came out to take a look and said with a smile, "Let them fight. They need to blow off some steam."
For such a long time, they had been eating food that Xie Yunsui had created using crystal cores, and the food contained very shallow energy.
The food eaten can strengthen the bodies of subhumans, and can widen the meridians of orcs, allowing their bodies to accumulate more energy.
During these ten days, if you only eat and don't exercise, you should consume your energy properly.
What's more, orcs need to rely on constant fighting to increase their strength.
Langfeng knew that Xier was the partner of Priest Yun, so he actually held back in the beginning of the fight.
He is the former leader of the Black Wolf Tribe. He has spent several snowy seasons in power and has experienced countless challenges. He has extensive experience in fighting both wild beasts and orcs.
Priest Yun saved several wolf orcs, and Langfeng wanted to teach Xier some combat experience.
Who knew that as the fight went on, Lang Feng became serious.
Don't be fooled by Xier's reckless behavior, looking like a fool, he actually has a strong learning ability. The first time Langfeng used retreat as an advance, he tricked him into attacking and then biting back, Xier figured out the tactic immediately. When Langfeng used retreat as an advance again, this guy became alert.
"Well done!" Langfeng was delighted. He admired capable orc warriors.
However, wolf language and tiger language are not interchangeable, Xier did not understand and thought he was provoking him, so he attacked more fiercely.
The others also fought back and forth, but everyone held back, so there was no bloody battle, and at most a lot of hair was lost.
Seeing the sun rising to the zenith, Xie Yunsui estimated that they had almost exhausted their energy, so he spoke up to call everyone back.
"In the afternoon, the demihumans will clear the snow from the front of the cave to the valley entrance. Orcs, follow me."
Li Ya distributed the broth to everyone. When she got to Xie Yunsui, she hesitated for a moment before asking, "Priest Yun, do you want me to go out with you?"
Xie Yunsui: "Of course."
Hu Jiao was getting a little anxious and came over and said, "Priest Yun, Li Ya doesn't have enough strength and has no experience fighting wild beasts."
Xie Yunsui said, "We're not going out hunting today. We're going to do other things."
Fox Jiao was stunned: "Not hunting?"
They were almost finished eating their laolao beasts, and Hu Jiao thought they were out looking for wild animals.
"There are more important things than hunting. We are running low on charcoal and ice, but the food will last for a while."
Xie Yunsui knew that Hu Jiao was not like the others, who would just follow orders and do what they were told. If he talked too much, his mind would become confused and he would not know what to do. Hu Jiao was good at thinking and liked to ask why, which was a good thing for Xie Yunsui.
Hu Jiao quickly realized that harvesting ice also requires strength, and Priest Yun would definitely not send Li Ya to do such a job, so he would have to make charcoal.
He never knew that burnt wood could be used as firewood again. After Priest Yun explained it to him, he realized that it was just a kind of incompletely burned wood. Although he didn't understand it, he only knew that it was more resistant to burning than wood. However, it did not prevent Hu Jiao from thinking that charcoal was a good thing. He even quickly concluded that charcoal in the snow season was as precious and important as salt.
Their tribe has always kept the technology of making salt. Whether orcs or demihumans, they all need to eat salt to have strength. This is the basis of their survival in the Western Continent.
Even if they were driven out of the tribe, the people of the Red Fox Tribe were not allowed to reveal the salt-making technology. They had sworn an oath to the Beast God.
Is Priest Ke Yun going to teach Li Ya such an amazing charcoal-making technique?
He was stunned and didn't react for a moment.
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