Original Orc 22 The Disappearing Hu Zhao
The Black Eagle Tribe was not far from the valley. After the Eagle Beastmen had a meal early in the morning, they carried the subhumans in the tribe and flew to the valley to take everyone to school.
A large area was cordoned off in the middle of the valley for Chi Yu to teach students.
Chi Yu's bamboo weaving skills were recognized as high by the Asians, so Xie Yunsui arranged for him to be a bamboo weaving teacher.
Many subhumans in the Black Hawk tribe were learning enthusiastically, and a few orcs were also able to follow suit patiently.
Hu Jiao is the pottery teacher, who leads another group of people to select and wash mud by the river, and is very busy.
Li Ya led the students who were learning to make charcoal to open several more charcoal holes.
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There is finally some manpower available in the valley.
Xie Yunsui first took Xier, Langfeng and others to open a river channel leading to the valley, so that they didn't have to go to the river to fetch water or wait for rain every day.
The Asians took advantage of this time to search all the flowers, plants and fruits growing in and outside the valley, leaving a small portion unpicked and taking the seeds after they matured.
The Orc Continent has abundant spiritual energy and fertile land. Grass leaves and fruits basically mature every three days and drop seeds every five days. After careful selection, several food seeds with good taste were selected for large-scale planting.
“Scale?”
Everyone didn't quite understand, but they were willing to follow Priest Yun to conduct various experiments.
Priest Yun knows everything anyway, so we won’t suffer any loss if we follow his instructions.
Xie Yunsui said helplessly, "It's not that difficult actually. But once I learn to grow my own food, I won't have to roam the mountains looking for food anymore."
Zuyang thought about his previous life. He not only had to remember the location of the grass leaves and fruits he often picked in the wild, but also the time when they grew and matured. Otherwise, a group of collecting teams would go out, walk for half a day and find that the fruits they wanted to collect were not ripe yet. They would have to turn back, wasting a whole day.
The entire Western Continent currently has no standardized farming techniques. Even the herbivorous tribal alliance that Zuyang previously stayed in, when they learned to plant fruit tree seeds in the tribe, only provided a piece of land at the doorstep for them to grow.
A month after the ice melt season, the wild beasts had plenty of food and were full, and it was the perfect time to use the fat to make oil.
When the aroma of the crispy dried fish filled the entire valley, everyone raised their heads and sniffed the fragrance in the air.
Xier was the first to rush to Xie Yunsui, rubbing against him left and right, hooking his calves with his tail, with an expression that showed he really wanted to eat him.
Xie Yunsui moved his big head: "Your paws are still dirty, go wash them first."
Xier couldn't wait to cry out: "Is this the dried fish you gave me before? It smells so good."
Xie Yunsui laughed and stuffed a small dried fish sprinkled with light salt into his mouth.
Xier only needs to take a sip, and the crispy dried fish will break into tiny bits between his lips and teeth, leaving a lingering fragrance in his mouth.
"tasty!"
Xier smiled. Although the taste was not very similar to the dried fish he had eaten last time, it was also delicious!
He looked at the freshly made dried fish in the bamboo basket with great interest. The fish were still emitting heat. However, there were still many people in the valley who had not eaten them yet. After tasting them, he went back to continue digging the reservoir that Xie Yunsui mentioned.
When I saw Xier come out, I knew he had finished eating.
Langfeng howled and gave a command to notify the others, then he rushed to his position like a whirlwind, opening his mouth and waiting to be fed.
The demi-humans who were still in class knitting peeked in. They weren't from the valley, so naturally they couldn't line up openly. They hoped that the Cloud Priest behind them could teach them how to make dried fish...
Chi Yu put down the bamboo weaving and said, "We'll go line up too."
Liu Yi and the others didn't dare to move: "You go and eat, we'll eat when we get back to the tribe."
Chi Yu said, "Shi Yan and the others brought back a lot of small fish this morning. We can make a lot of dried fish. Priest Yun should be willing to share it with everyone."
How could these orcs, who only knew how to grill and boil everything, resist the deliciousness of fried food?
The quantity today was not large, so everyone only tried one out of courtesy, but they were all obviously captivated by its deliciousness.
"Is this dried fish? It's delicious!"
“I didn’t know fish could be so delicious!”
“Crunchy and delicious!”
There is no need to explain how delicious fried products are. As soon as dried fish came out, it immediately became the orcs' favorite food.
When Shi Yan and others first brought the small fish back, the demihumans were still thinking how troublesome it would be to eat such a small fish.
There is not much meat and it is covered with thorns.
The spines were now fried until crispy, and the Yamen were chewing while instructing Shi Yan and the others, "Catch more small fish tomorrow."
Xie Yunsui left enough dried fish for those who were busy outside. He counted the people who had tasted it and found that he hadn't seen Hu Zhao for two days.
He first asked Zuyang if he had seen Hu Zhao, and Zuyang said he couldn't remember after trying to recall the past.
Since the end of the snow season, people no longer need to save charcoal and hug each other for warmth, so they have opened up many caves and live separately.
Everyone is busy with their own work during the day, and now with the addition of the Black Hawk tribe, it is indeed not easy to notice individual orcs.
Xie Yunsui was worried. He handed the oil pan to Zuyang and went out to find Xier: "Xier, have you seen Hu Zhao these two days?"
"Hu Zhao?" Xier thought for a moment. "The day before yesterday, he went with us to the river to set up the fish traps. I haven't seen him since."
Hearing the question, Lang Feng looked up and recalled, "Yesterday morning, he seemed to have gone out with a bamboo basket on his back. Didn't you arrange for him to go to work?"
Xie Yunsui said, "No, I thought he was digging with you."
Oh no, there is one person missing in the tribe.
Xie Yunsui patted his forehead. He had been so busy these past few days that he didn't even notice that such a big orc was missing.
Normally, when orcs go out hunting, they won't return home for three or four days.
When Hu Zhao was in the Golden Tiger Tribe, he often stayed out for days at a time, and no one cared whether he returned home at night.
But Xie Yunsui didn't know these established rules.
He was afraid that Hu Zhao might encounter something while he was out, just like what happened when they first met, where he was targeted by a wild beast and was unable to fight and could not come back.
Xie Yunsui immediately took Xier out to find Hu Zhao.
"First, let's look for it in nearby places where wild animals often appear." Xie Yunsui said.
Xier stepped on the accelerator and sped away.
The redwood forest covers a vast area, and only the area near the valley has been explored. Xier can still identify the direction, but when he goes a little further away, he begins to lose his sense of direction.
Xie Yunsui asked, "Can't you smell Hu Zhao here?"
Xier: "No, not even the breath of a beast."
"Then keep walking in the direction of the sun."
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Hu Zhao lowered his body and looked at the long-tailed beast's nest in front of him, feeling a deep joy in his heart.
Finally found the long-tailed beast!
He found the nest directly. Just by staring at the cave entrance, he discovered three long-tailed beasts coming in and out. There should be a few cubs in the nest.
If you could catch the whole litter, their fur would be just enough to make a blanket.
The gifts he had been thinking about giving to Priest Yun and Xier were finally given.
Hu Zhao has been thinking about this matter since the end of the snow season.
Because he was missing a leg, Priest Yun had never arranged for him to go out hunting alone. There were always other people around him, so it was not easy for him to go out alone to look for the long-tailed beast.
The last time he went to the Black Hawk Tribe to watch a performance, Yu Sheng accidentally caught a long-tailed beast. Hu Zhao went to ask about the location of the long-tailed beast. Taking advantage of the fact that the work was not heavy in the past two days, he chose a good day with clear weather, carried a bamboo basket with three days of food in it, and left the valley.
The long-tailed beast was very fast, and Hu Zhao knew that he could not hit it with one strike, so he was ready for a long battle with the long-tailed beast.
Hold your breath and concentrate.
The beast's pupils narrowed into a vertical line, staring intently at a long-tailed beast.
The long-tailed beast was unaware of the eyes in the dark and was pulling out the weeds near the cave.
Their staple food is green grass leaves. Since they cannot taste anything, they can eat any weeds. However, they are naturally sensitive to toxicity and will avoid poisonous grass leaves.
All the wild grass near the cave was pulled out, and the long-tailed beast slowly walked out, heading straight towards the direction where Hu Zhao was hiding.
"rustle--"
There was a sound of swaying bushes not far away, loud enough to attract the attention of the long-tailed beast.
Hu Zhao had his arrow on the bowstring and was about to pounce when the long-tailed beast swooped back into the cave.
This kind of small animal is very good at digging holes. Once they find there is danger here, they will definitely not come out of this hole again!
Hu Zhao lost his temper and looked towards the source of the sound.
"Cloud Priest? Xier?"
Hu Zhao was shocked. Why were they here?
Xie Yunsui looked Hu Zhao up and down, and found no wounds. Then he said, "You haven't been back to the tribe for two days. I was worried something might have happened to you."
Hu Zhao smiled innocently: "What can happen to me? I am an orc warrior."
"When I first met you, weren't you also an orc warrior?" Xie Yunsui glanced at the bald patch ahead and suddenly realized, "Are you hunting wild beasts?"
Hu Zhao was silent for a moment, not knowing whether he should tell the story of his pursuit of the long-tailed beast.
He wanted to secretly capture the long-tailed beast and then secretly have someone process the hide and sew it up. Now that Priest Yun and Xier knew about it, there was no sense of surprise at all.
However, Xie Yunsui quickly gave up the idea of continuing to hide the truth.
Xie Yunsui looked at the raised earthen nest in the center of the bald ground, thinking of the small animals living in the school who loved to pull out weeds, and suddenly thought: "You are chasing the long-tailed beast, which is not easy to catch."
If Hu Zhao was in his prime, he would be able to catch one, but now that Hu Zhao is missing a leg, he lacks speed and balance.
Xier asked, "Do you want me to help you catch it? But the long-tailed beast meat is not tasty."
Hu Zhao groaned and lay on the ground: "I don't want to eat meat..."
After listening to Hu Zhao's explanation, Xie Yunsui was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Later, I thought about it carefully. The fur fibers of the long-tailed beast are as soft and fine as wool. Because it is so comfortable, it likes to pluck its own fur to make nests all year round.
Isn’t it a good material for making clothes?
As long as there is enough food, the long-tailed beast will give birth to cubs continuously, making it perfect for being kept in captivity!
He had always wanted to find some mulberry and hemp to make clothes, but he didn't expect that such good material was right under his nose.
"Hu Zhao, Xier, long-tailed beasts are very useful. I need you to capture this nest of long-tailed beasts alive."
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