Primal Orc 37 Pact
With the help of orcs from many tribes, especially the hard work of the wolf orcs, a group of simple stilt houses built along the mountains and rivers were finally completed.
The Hu Jiao family moved into the wooden house closest to Priest Yun's house.
Although the floor was raised, one could still get up there by just lifting their feet. Li Ya looked at her woven straw sandals covered in mud and simply took them off and got up.
The little fox Zhou Li also obediently turned into a human form.
Fox Jiao said, "Priest Yun said that the cub's beast form isn't that heavy, so it won't collapse."
Their red fox tribe, whether cubs or adult orcs, are not very heavy.
Zhou Li was even more serious than the two adults: "This is our cave...our home. We must take good care of it."
When the first house was built, Zhou Li had just finished collecting the materials and ran over excitedly to see them.
Xiersiel, who was even more excited than him, maintained his beast form and went up. With a jump in excitement, he crushed the house, leaving Priest Yun silent for a while.
Zhou Li watched the whole thing, which had a great impact on his soul.
At that time, I thought that if I had a wooden house at home, I would not act as recklessly as Xier did.
When you push open the door of the wooden house, a scent of wood will fill you.
The floor was polished smooth and flat, so you wouldn't get hurt if you walked on it barefoot. It was also coated with a layer of oil, which Priest Yun said was to prevent insects from eating it. It was now completely dry.
The space inside was square, with a wooden bed placed against each wall, one large and one small. The smaller one was naturally Zhou Li's.
Zhou Li couldn't help but show his composure, which he had developed from being the leader of the children. He smiled and touched the bed that belonged to him.
Li Ya didn't look at the bed first. She walked to the middle of the two beds and opened the wooden window opposite the door. A breeze blew across her body, carrying the scent of flowing water and wild flowers on the bank.
"So refreshing!" Li Ya praised.
There is no cold and damp smell of the cave at all!
It is not easy to light a fire to keep warm in a house made entirely of wood. Priest Yun had emphasized this before. At that time, Li Ya was still worried, what if it gets cold?
But now the sunlight is pouring in through the window, bringing with it a warm and dry breath, and I don’t feel cold at all lying inside wearing my animal skin clothes.
Even without a fire, the room didn't seem dark.
Moreover, the floor is raised and is not exposed to the moisture from the ground, so it is not so cold.
Li Ya turned to look at her partner, satisfaction evident in her eyes.
Hu Jiao had been told about the advantages of the wooden house when Priest Yun said he wanted to build such a house, but the actual experience was still different. He looked left and right, and even though he had touched it countless times, he was still surprised.
This wooden house has almost no disadvantages except that it cannot allow orcs to transform into beast form - the beast form is only for orcs who are too heavy, and for the Red Fox Tribe, this disadvantage does not exist.
"Zhou Li Zhou Li, how's your house?"
"Zhou Li, can we come up and take a look?"
"Zhou Li..."
The little fox's good friends were talking and chattering under the window with their heads raised.
A little eagle that couldn't transform into a human form yet flapped its wings and flew up, coming straight in through the window!
Zhou Li first hugged the little eagle orc, then rushed to the window and warned: "You can't come up so many at once, you can only transform into human form and then come up! And take off your shoes, those who don't have shoes should go to the river to wash their feet!"
Soon the wooden house was packed with people and it was bustling with activity.
Xier next door has already started decorating the interior of the house.
There was only a big bed in the room, which was moved under the window. Even at night, as long as the window was opened a little, the moonlight could come in and you could see the stars in the sky.
The wooden cabinets on both sides served as bedside tables. Xier stuffed a lot of dried meat into them, intending to take it out and chew it when he was bored.
Xie Yunsui put in a wooden clothes hanger and leaned it against the end of the bed. It was filled with the animal skins they had accumulated. He took the largest one and spread it on the bed so that it wouldn't feel hard when he slept.
The mattress is made of animal skins, and the body is covered with a large wool blanket woven from balls of wool.
There were some small animal skins, but I hadn't figured out a use for them yet. They weren't enough to make animal skin clothes, so I just used small wooden nails to stick them on the wall as decoration.
After Xier finished eating the snacks, he saw that the wall was full of his trophies. Even the ones he caught a long time ago were kept by Xie Yunsui!
Wow, so touching!
Xier walked up to Xie Yunsui, hugged her and wanted to kiss her.
When the temperature began to rise slowly, everyone knew that the thunderstorm season was coming without Xie Yunsui's reminder.
After experiencing several heavy rains, the orcs living in the caves moved to the wooden house settlement.
The chief of the Black Hawk tribe even came to discuss with Xie Yunsui about taking the tribe away from the cliff.
I don’t know why their ancestors chose to live here. As the number of tribes increased, the cliff walls were almost hollowed out by them.
The subhumans and cubs in the tribe cannot fly, so every time they go out, the orcs need to carry them up and down together. If the orcs go out hunting, the subhumans cannot go back to their caves even if they return home.
This is quite a troublesome thing, but I used to be used to it and didn't think too much about it.
When Xie Yunsui led everyone in the valley to change their residence, the tribe leader Yu Shuo had the idea of moving the tribe.
At first, he thought of building a wooden house under the cliff for the tribe's subhumans and cubs to live in. Later, when he asked Xie Yunsui why he built a house by the river, Xie Yunsui changed his mind with just one sentence - living along the river would save them from fetching water.
It turned out to be such a reason, but when it was spoken, it won the resonance of all the orcs in the tribe - fetching water is really troublesome!
It doesn't rain every day. On days when there is no rain, the beastmen have to look for water and fetch it back.
Now that we have clay pots, it is easier to draw water. Before there were clay pots, they had to carry such heavy stone buckets to draw water, which was really hard.
Yu Shuo was so worried about the new location of the tribe that he couldn't eat for several days. After Priest Yun's wooden house was completed, he went to experience it for himself, and then he suddenly slapped his head and decided to build it on the other side of the river from the valley tribe!
From then on, the two families became real neighbors!
After hearing this, Xie Yunsui did not say anything and started looking for the video of the bridge construction that night.
...There is no end to learning, really no end to learning.
Even on the day of the bond-making ceremony, he was studying the rainfall points on both sides of the bridge, wondering if the thunderstorm season would cause increased rainfall and flood the bridge surface.
Xier is different. He has been very energetic since he woke up in the morning.
After breakfast, I went to fight with Langfeng and the others to relax a bit.
Lang Feng and the others knew that Xier was going to form a pact with Priest Yun today, so they were very kind and didn't hit him in the face.
After Xier left with a ruthless pace, Langfeng and Langqi looked at his back with sour eyes: Damn it, bullying them for not having a partner.
The subhumans sent by the Black Wolf Tribe to study all have partners and bring their cubs with them, with the main goal of not breaking up a family of three.
Don't give them any chance to take advantage.
The wolves whimpered softly, "Boss, why don't we go back to the tribe and find a mate before coming back."
Lang Feng said calmly, "I'm not going back."
Lang Qi was sad: "Does that mean we will be without a partner for the rest of our lives?"
Lang Feng was stunned, and suddenly thought of the demi-human from the Black Hawk tribe who had been following him recently, and fell silent.
Xier returned to Xie Yunsui and wiped the sweat off his face. "Yunsui, how are you going to conduct the bond ceremony today?"
Xie Yunsui thought about it, but had no clue: "How did the Golden Tiger Tribe prepare in the past?"
Xier tilted his head and recalled.
When he was in the Golden Tiger Tribe, he only knew that the covenant ceremony was held after the worship of the gods.
He never got enough sleep when he was a cub. He usually didn't wait for the bonding ceremony and would go to sleep as soon as he finished his meal.
Mainly participated in the previous sacrificial activities.
Because the worship ceremony is the most important event, every member of the tribe must participate. It often takes a whole day to prepare rich food. The priest then prays to the beast god and prays that in the coming year, the tribe will have enough food to eat and drink, and that the tribe will have many cubs to strengthen the tribe.
Xie Yunsui was stunned: "..."
There is no need to offer sacrifices to gods, as there are no real beast gods in this world.
However, everyone has worked hard throughout the ice-melt season, so it's time to relax, hold a banquet for everyone to eat and drink, and then test their achievements.
Just treat it as an annual meeting.
When the news spread, everyone cheered. When there is work, they work hard. When there is no work, they are happy to just eat and play!
Different from the Black Hawk tribe's activities when selecting warriors, which focused on picking the most capable ones, Xie Yunsui organized many group activities this time to get everyone involved, and both adults and children could participate.
For example, let everyone elect a few people with the best knitting skills, and then have a competition together. The person who knits something of a specified style first wins.
The winning prize is Xie Yunsui's latest food recipe, but compared to others, no one cares what the recipe is. Everyone just wants to be the strongest, and they are already at loggerheads without adding fuel to the fire.
The onlookers can also choose the people they support and cheer them on.
For example, long-distance relay races for children, three-legged races between close couples, etc.
Everyone, who had never experienced such a rich variety of entertainment activities, was excited by these activities.
Especially the three-legged race. The couples in the first group had a lot of fun, and those who were single later also wanted to play, so Xie Yunsui added another race and let the singles find partners on their own.
Seeing Xier having so much fun, Langfeng had been itching to join in, but he had no partner, so he had to endure it. When he heard the matching rules of the extra game, he was about to go find Langqi, but when he turned around, Xiaoya, a subhuman from the Black Hawk tribe, came over with a red face and asked him if he could play together.
Lang Feng was eager to compete, so he dragged him to sign up.
The two men stood together with their legs tied together tightly with extremely tough animal tendons.
The skin touching each other transmitted heat to each other. Lang Feng was only focused on winning or losing, and did not notice that the person next to him was blushing so much that blood was about to drip out of his face.
Xie Yunsui raised his eyebrows and said nothing more.
Speaking of which, the demi-humans in this world don't have any animalistic characteristics. Does that also mean they can combine with any form of beastmen?
He glanced sideways at Yu Shuo, the Black Hawk leader who was counting the number of victories in his tribe, and decided to let him be happy for a while longer.
After a lively day, Xie Yunsui simply said some beautiful blessings during the evening worship ceremony and then let everyone have a good meal.
Everyone who had been having so much fun was already starving. Several first-place winners even received special new food, which aroused everyone's envy.
After showing off for a while, the winner did not keep the prize to himself but generously shared it with the cubs.
Then comes the covenant ceremony.
The two people who decided to stay together for life, to stay together no matter how many snow seasons passed, and to jointly raise and maintain a family, swore an oath to the Beast God under the witness of the priest. If they broke the oath, they would not be protected by the Beast God in life, nor could they return to the Beast God after death. In the next life, they would become wild beasts that could be torn apart by anyone.
This is the most serious oath for an orc.
The beastmen couples who participated in the bond ceremony held hands one after another, looked at each other, and made promises.
Finally it was the turn of the priest himself.
Xier held Xie Yunsui's hand, looked up at the starry sky, and expressed his promise word by word with a serious expression.
Xie Yunsui did not believe in the beast god, but he had no choice but to follow the local customs.
As the words fell, the onlookers who could not wait any longer came forward to offer their blessings.
Because there were so many people participating this time, those who lacked cultural knowledge started to get stuck after saying a few words, and in the end it was inevitably reduced to an assembly line-style blessing.
"Why are you saying the same thing?"
"Because they are all blessings!"
"I don't want to be like them! I want endless food!"
“Who wouldn’t want to?”
“Hahahahahaha…”
What a simple and pure group of people.
Xie Yunsui felt everyone's happy mood, and looked at Xier's smile at the similar blessings over and over again, with a smile in his eyes.
His right hand was still holding Xier's hand, and his fingertips rubbed between his fingers for a while, and then put a silver ring into his ring finger.
Xier lowered his head: "Huh?"
Xie Yunsui hugged him and said, "Xier, we will be together not just in this life, but for all our lives."
Xier was stunned for a moment: "After we die, we will be born by our father and mother, in that life?"
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "Yeah."
Xier nodded heavily: "Okay."
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