Primal Orc 36: Following the Cloud Priest, you'll never have to worry about food...
Golden Tiger Tribe.
A demihuman comforted several cubs and prepared to make lunch for the day.
When they walked into the cave where the food was stored, they found that all the meat and potatoes had been eaten.
Alas, he gave birth to another cub this year. Together with the ones born in previous years, he has the most cubs in the tribe, a total of five. The largest cub will not reach adulthood until next year's ice melt season.
The five cubs had huge appetites. They had already eaten up the meat they had been given the day before, and the potatoes they had received from the new priest were also gone.
His partner had gone out with the hunting team and had not returned yet. He couldn't go without food, so he packed up the net bag woven from thick leaves and vines and left the cave.
I met other people on the road and saw that they were also wearing net bags. I smiled and said, "Are you also going to see the new priest?"
"Yes, the potatoes that the Beast God gifted to our tribe are delicious. My cub and I both love to eat them."
"It turns out that a true priest can really communicate with the Beast God. Yi Han is the true Beast God's messenger!"
"If it weren't for Yi Han, we wouldn't have known that the food given by the Beast God was so delicious. We wouldn't have to go out and work hard to collect it. We could just pray to the Beast God and we would have it."
"I heard that an orc in the hunting team was injured a few days ago, and it was Yi Han who healed him with the potion he prayed to the Beast God for."
"My leg was almost broken, but after drinking a bottle of medicine, it healed instantly. I was able to go out hunting again the next day!"
"Wow, I know. It's Hu Yuan. Priest Yi Han likes Hu Yuan very much."
"I remember Yihan wasn't Shitu's partner? They spent the snow season together."
"Ah? Isn't he living in Huyang's cave now?"
"Impossible! Doesn't Huyang have a demihuman who wants to form a bond? They decided to hold the bond ceremony during this sacrificial ceremony. How could they live with another demihuman?"
As they neared their destination, the gossip gradually quieted down: "It's because Priest Yihan is so kind to Huyang that Huyang has fallen in love with him. Most of the young beastmen in our tribe like him..."
The protagonist they were talking about was in front of a large cave, which was a cave specially prepared by the tribe for the new priest Yi Han.
In this cave, Yi Han would use his own unique method of praying to the Beast God to obtain food, weapons and healing potions.
The previous person got medicine for a cub that had an inexplicable fever after playing in the water, and returned happily. Everyone came forward and expressed their needs one by one.
"Priest Cold, I need potatoes, enough for six people for three days."
"I need potatoes too. I'm done with the last batch."
"Priest Cold, I want some sweet and delicious fruits..."
The expression on Yi Han's face no longer had the enthusiasm he had when he first became a priest. He smiled faintly and said, "Wait a moment."
He wrote down what everyone wanted and walked into the cave.
There was no fire inside, no light, and the pitch blackness engulfed Yi Han's figure. The people standing outside did not dare to peek, but just waited in silence and expectation.
As soon as Yi Han entered, he restrained his expression and lay on the ground, without any of the burden that a priest should have.
"What should I do, System? They're treating me like a sucker and demanding everything from me!"
The system said unhappily, "Who told you to brag so much when you were competing with the previous priest for the position of priest?"
"I was thinking at the time that once I became a priest, I would be able to attract more orcs and gain more energy points, right? Potatoes, sweet potatoes, fruits and so on are so cheap, and one hundred energy points can be exchanged for so many..." Yi Han habitually defended himself, and slowly his voice became lower.
Who would have thought that the demi-humans who seemed so hardworking before would be so lazy that they didn’t want to go out to collect food and just wanted to ask him for food!
Although not everyone, he wouldn't be able to handle it if only ten or twenty people came.
System: "Currently, there are 105 orcs whose favorability towards you has reached 60. But you must know that 60 is a false sentiment; anything can divert their attention. The number of people who have reached 70 has been halved, and there are less than ten who have reached 80. Not a single orc has reached the 100-point favorability level that provides the maximum energy!"
"If you keep providing food to everyone for free, your energy level will be depleted very quickly."
"And..." The system announced the bad news: "Because you frequently buy potatoes and sweet potatoes, their prices have increased. They've doubled! Before, 100 kilograms of potatoes only cost 200 energy points, but now it costs 400 energy points."
"Damn it, because you've been buying food for so long, the prices of all food categories have gone up ten percent!"
"What?" Yi Han, who hadn't even finished high school, was furious. "How can this be! Can't we buy it from another store?"
"Do you think I'm connected to some small commodity market? My energy value is low, and the main system is very kind to open the mall for me. I don't get to choose!"
Because the energy value is too low, the system is so out of control that it is unaware that the connection channel between itself and the main system has been damaged.
The two parties were still arguing, oblivious to the demi-humans waiting outside.
Everyone looked at each other, wondering if the priest had fallen asleep while praying...
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Xie Yunsui reset the price and waited for the other party's reaction.
There were no new orders for a while, so he went to work.
Last time we attended a big fair and fully displayed the products and technologies that their Redwood Valley has, nearly a hundred people came to the valley one after another.
Hu Jiao was busy taking off. As people arrived, he recorded their arrivals one by one, then reported to Xie Yunsui: "The Black Wolf Tribe came the most, with a total of forty-five people, fifteen orcs, ten subhumans, and twenty cubs. The Red Fox Tribe came with twenty-eight people, almost all subhumans, including the cubs. The Scaled Snake Tribe came with twenty-five people, no cubs, and the split was fifty-fifty between orcs and subhumans."
He was already smart, and with Xie Yunsui's guidance, he could already do math within a hundred.
The bark in my hand has been polished, is thin and soft, has a rough surface, is easy to fold, and is more suitable for writing with thin charcoal sticks.
As for the simple words above, I also learned about them from Priest Yun.
Xie Yunsui did not cram information such as words or arithmetic into everyone's heads all at once, but slowly infiltrated it into life.
For example, there are dozens of edible foods in the valley now, but only a few of them can be named.
Most edible green plants are called grass leaves, so much so that everyone in the valley speaks like this:
"We need to take that grass blade out to dry today. It wasn't dry enough yesterday."
"Is that the blade of grass?"
"Not that blade of grass, but that round blade of grass."
It all depends on everyone's understanding. Those who were responsible for drying the grass leaves yesterday and today can still understand it, but once the shifts change, it's like groping in the dark.
Xie Yunsui gave names to each food based on the differences in the shape, function, and taste of the leaves. Familiar ones, such as bracken and cabbage, were still called that, while unfamiliar ones were given new names.
At first, no one could keep up, but after a while, they got used to it.
Qing Lang, a subhuman from the Black Wolf Tribe, followed his gathering team teacher out for three days and learned the names of various grass leaves.
"The bracken is almost dried. Should we steam it?" Qing Lang looked up and asked.
Hou Shu looked at the quality of the dried vegetables and said, "Well, send them to Yue Lai."
Qing Lang collected the dried ferns in the bamboo basket into a small willow basket, picked up the handle and took it to Yue Lai who was cooking the big pot of rice.
"Yuelai! This needs to be steamed and then dried in the sun. Remember to call me when you are done." Qing Lang said.
After day after day of treatment, Yue Lai was able to stand up again after recovering from his leg injury. However, due to not standing for a long time, his muscles had atrophied severely, and he could not walk far now.
I asked Hu Jiao for permission to cook for the big pot.
There are many people in the valley now, and the food cooked in one clay pot is not enough, so three pots are needed.
Yue Lai is familiar with the cooking method in clay pots. Now she can take care of three pots at once, getting up from time to time to adjust the size of the flame, accurately calculating the heat, and even knitting sweaters while waiting.
Yue Lai took the willow basket, looked at the size, set up the two red-hot charcoals, randomly found three stones to surround them, placed a small clay pot and started steaming.
He replied, "Okay."
Qing Lang didn't leave immediately. The three soup pots were already boiling, and the aroma of food filled his nose. He looked at them with envy, "What are we having for lunch?"
The soup pot hadn't boiled yet and the food was submerged in the water. He couldn't see clearly, but he could smell the aroma of meat.
Yue Lai smiled and said, "There's fish and tofu soup, animal meat and tofu soup, and there's also steamed animal meat and dried vegetables. The staple food is bean curd dregs meat pie."
Qing Lang's eyes lit up: "Tofu!"
It is said that it is made from a fruit called "bean" found by Priest Yun in the wild. It is very delicious and tender.
He had just arrived in the valley and had only heard of it but never eaten it. There were so many vegetables and fruits in the valley, and they were cooked with meat in different ways every day. Finally, today it was the turn of the tofu that he had been craving for.
For a moment, Qing Lang didn't want to continue working and just wanted to wait here to eat.
Not only Qinglang, but people who came later were also very curious about food like tofu. Some of them had heard about the lunch meal a long time ago and were already looking forward to it before noon.
Even those who have eaten tofu before will become more excited to work when they think about its taste and deliciousness.
Soon, the eagle beastmen's howling sound was heard at the entrance of the valley, which meant that it was time for lunch!
People working nearby put down what they were doing and quickly disappeared from the spot.
In just a blink of an eye, Xie Yunsui saw the man who had just been fighting with him disappear into the distance at the speed of a middle school student rushing to the cafeteria after school.
Xier slipped out for about a hundred meters before realizing he had forgotten anyone. He hurried back to pick up Xie Yunsui, "Come up quickly! I can run faster than them, so I can get the hottest food!"
Xie Yunsui rubbed his head and said, "Don't be impatient. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."
Xierxian walked normally as expected, but when he saw that there was no one around him and he was the last one, he immediately sped up.
Xie Yunsui laughed.
I didn't expect tofu to be so popular.
But he never expected that the green-skinned fruit he found could actually be used as a substitute for beans.
When he first discovered it, he thought it was a fruit, a green-skinned fruit about the size of a grapefruit. After testing, he found that it was extremely rich in plant protein, and it was simply a bean magnified countless times.
This green fruit can be eaten directly by putting it into the soup pot, but since Xie Yunsui knew that it could be used as beans, how could he let it go so easily?
When we returned to the valley, we saw that the group of people who had returned earlier were holding ceramic bowls, but instead of drinking the soup, they were grimacing and breathing hard, trying to cool the tofu in their mouths.
They all looked up to the sky or down to the ground, looking like non-human beings.
Even if the person who got the tofu soup later saw the person in front of him doing this, he couldn't help but eat a piece of tofu first and then join the "unruly" camp.
It’s so hot!
But it's delicious~
Fortunately, we came to the valley to enjoy such delicious food.
As expected, following Priest Yun, there is no need to worry about food. Not only can you eat enough, but you can also eat well.
I almost don’t want to go back to my own tribe.
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