Primal Orcs 14 Red Fox Tribe
"The Red Fox Tribe is just ahead."
Langfeng shook his fur, and after running for a long time, the wind blew his fur into a frantic shape.
Xie Yunsui jumped down and first held onto the big tree next to him to calm down.
Knowing that the journey was long, they did not want to spend the night in the forest, so they got up early in the morning and left the valley before daybreak.
We walked in the general direction for about two hours before dawn.
Even though they were in a hurry, Xier and Langfeng were running at the same speed, and it still took them a whole day to get out of the redwood forest.
Xier and Langfeng were panting heavily, obviously having consumed too much energy.
"Would the Red Fox Tribe mind us staying overnight?" Xie Yunsui asked.
He had already seen the scattered lights of the Red Fox Tribe, which should be the tribesmen warming themselves and cooking.
Lang Feng said, "I don't think so. I remember one time people from the Golden Tiger Tribe came to exchange salt, but they encountered a thunderstorm and couldn't go back, so they stayed in the Red Fox Tribe for two days."
However, the Red Fox clan leader still sent people to the Black Wolf clan and invited two wolf beastmen to maintain order.
Xie Yunsui said, "Then let's go ask first. It's getting cold, and it would be nice if we had a place to hide from the cold."
When Fox Yue, the chief of the Red Fox Tribe, heard that a team had arrived to exchange salt, he was shocked.
It’s snowing heavily, and there are still people from the tribe going out?
No, they are so short of salt. They changed it before the snow season, but it was all eaten up before the ice melt season?
Hu Yue thought they were from the Big Bear tribe, as that tribe consumed the most salt, and they were probably not able to exchange enough last time.
Faced with the increasingly bad reputation of the Big Bear tribe, Hu Yue was worried and had already planned to send someone to the Black Wolf tribe.
"Chief, there are only three people coming, one demihuman and two orcs, one of them is Langfeng."
Lang Feng was an old acquaintance, and Hu Yue breathed a sigh of relief: "I'll go meet them."
The Red Fox Tribe has a special cave for receiving guests. It is very large. Someone just moved a fire over there, and some warmth has accumulated inside. However, there is no cover at the entrance of the cave, so cold wind still blows in from time to time.
When Hu Yue came, Xie Yunsui was snuggling on Xier to keep warm.
Lang Feng dug out sweet potatoes and beef and radish soup in a bamboo tube from the bamboo basket he brought with him, intending to roast them by the fire and heat them up before eating.
Hu Yue asked, "Lang Feng, are you bringing the people from the Golden Tiger Tribe to exchange for salt?"
Lang Feng was embarrassed. He was no longer the leader of the Black Wolf Tribe, nor was he specifically there to act as a matchmaker for the salt exchange team.
Xie Yunsui didn't make things difficult for him. He stood up and said, "Chief Huyue, I'm Yunsui, from Redwood Valley. I represent my tribe and hope to exchange this charcoal for salt."
Fox Yue paused.
First of all, is there a tribe called Redwood Valley in the Western Continent?
What is charcoal?
Hu Yue was the first to find the key point: "Charcoal? Is it used for burning fire?"
During the snowy season, the value of dry wood increases dramatically.
The Red Fox Tribe uses a lot of wood because of their long-term salt production. However, the tribe members do not have enough ability to cut wood, so they often ask the wolf orcs of the Black Wolf Tribe for help.
The Black Wolf Tribe would cut down lots of wood and dry it in the sun on sunny days of every season except the snow season. The Red Fox Tribe would take this opportunity to stock up on dry wood.
Even so, their tribe still faces a shortage of wood every season.
Since this demi-human named Yun Sui brought charcoal specifically, it must be something like wood?
Xie Yunsui smiled and explained the difference between charcoal and wood, and gave Hu Yue a few pieces of charcoal to go back and experiment on his own.
After a night, Hu Yue ran over to Xie Yunsui excitedly and said, "I want all this charcoal!"
Xier yawned as he listened to Xie Yunsui and Hu Yue discussing the ratio of charcoal to salt. He didn't understand, so he stretched his body and habitually pushed Langfeng out to fight.
Lang Feng was also feeling itchy and wanted to relax a little.
As Fox Yue was chatting, he realized something was wrong. He turned around and found that the demihumans and orcs in the tribe had all run out to watch the fun.
Fox Yue:?
He looked at the skinny and frail tribesmen who ate sparingly due to food shortages, and then looked at the two big guys fighting...
Is Langfeng's beast form a little stronger than the last time I saw him?
That big white tiger is also incredibly strong, probably about the same strength as the big bear's orc warrior.
Hu Yue asked curiously, "Why is Lang Feng with you?"
Xie Yunsui simply said, "The tribe leader has changed. He has left the Black Wolf Tribe."
Fox Yue knew the traditions of the Black Wolf Tribe. Upon hearing this, his fox-like eyes widened. "He's so strong, how could he leave the Black Wolf Tribe?"
"Maybe he was seriously injured when he left and was about to die." Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "I used herbal juice to treat him."
"Are you a priest?" Hu Yue was even more shocked.
Xie Yunsui did not want to conceal the existence of the big family in the Abandoned Valley, and even wanted to use the Red Fox Tribe to establish connections with all the tribes in the Western Continent.
He told a mixture of truth and lies, saying that he was a visitor from outside the continent, and that he had lived in the valley by chance, and that he had taken in some abandoned orcs and subhumans during this snowy season.
Hu Yue was stunned when he heard this.
After a while, Hu Yue came back to his senses and said: "If you have no place to live, you can come to our tribe."
He secretly wanted to lure the priest Xie Yunsui to his own tribe.
Xie Yunsui smiled and said, "Will you continue to accept orcs and demihumans abandoned by various tribes?"
Hu Yue: “…”
Xie Yunsui: "I will."
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Three days later, Xie Yunsui returned to the Abandoned Valley with a basket full of coarse salt.
"Is Priest Yun back?"
Hou Shu, who was about to return to the cave late at night, saw the figure at the mouth of the valley and shouted.
Everyone in the cave came out to greet them.
"The fish and radish soup is ready, come and have some."
"Is this salt? It fills a whole bamboo basket!"
"Stop talking here and go into the cave to warm up."
Xie Yunsui saw several large piles of ice lined up outside the cave, which he thought would be enough to last until the end of the snow season.
Passing by the cave where sweet potatoes and radishes were placed, I found that there were also many bamboo baskets and baskets inside, which were filled with frozen fish and large pieces of frozen meat.
Back in the big cave, Luo Bai and Yuyang were nitrifying animal hides. Li Ya took out the roasted sweet potatoes and added a few pieces of charcoal under the broth pot.
Walking in, there were now two large baskets of charcoal that had been emptied out before.
Xie Yunsui also saw several mud pots and tubes, which were somewhat similar to the styles of stone pots and bamboo tubes.
What a surprise!
How did these few people accomplish so much work in just three days?
Before he left, he asked Zuyang to be the manager, and the clever Hujiao to assist him. Now he naturally wanted to understand the situation from the two of them.
Xier brought him a sweet roasted sweet potato and told him to eat it quickly, then went to grab the food with Langfeng.
Xie Yunsui laughed and turned to ask Zuyang, but Zuyang said that it was all Hu Jiao's fault.
It turns out that Hu Jiao is determined to achieve something, not only to roll up his sleeves himself, but also to encourage others to roll up their sleeves as well.
Everyone in the cave basically worked according to the pattern assigned by Xie Yunsui before. Doing the same work every day naturally made them more proficient.
When the Ya people had no more bamboo weaving work, he assigned it to other groups, because there is strength in numbers.
In the past, everyone worked until noon and came back to eat, which wasted time on the way back and forth. Hu Jiao thought of a solution. At noon, he put lunch in a bamboo basket, wrapped it in animal skin and sent it to each team.
After finishing his work at noon, Hu Jiao called a wolf beastman to go with him to each trap to see if there was any prey.
He is busy like a top all day long, with no moment of rest. In the evening, he has to lead everyone to make clay models and review and count numbers while doing so.
This was not enough. In the morning, the orcs liked to fight to burn off their energy. Hu Jiao thought they would get hurt easily in a fight, so he sent them to dig caves. The wolf orcs in particular dug out two large caves in the past three days.
Zuyang said, "Everyone has slept soundly these past few days."
Xie Yunsui: "..."
He was still too humanitarian. His previous work arrangements were from nine to six, without considering the actual physical fitness and energy levels of the Orcs on the Continent.
Xie Yunsui looked at Hu Jiao with a complicated expression, and finally nodded with satisfaction.
Hu Jiao is undoubtedly capable and his thinking is very advanced. Judging from the fact that he delivers takeout, he is very thoughtful and knows how to save time on the way back and forth, thereby improving work efficiency. This is an ability that no one else currently has.
Perhaps there are some things he doesn't need to handle alone? Leaving them to the local people can unleash unexpected creativity.
Isn’t there an old saying?
If you can't lead a team, you can only work yourself to death.
Xie Yunsui immediately and diligently told Hu Jiao that he planned to hand over the pottery making to him in the future. It just so happened that he and Li Ya made pottery and fired pottery respectively, so communication would be more convenient.
"Making pottery?"
"Those clay pots and jars can be dried in the shade for about ten days and then fired into earthenware pots. Fired earthenware pots are more durable, can hold water without leaking, and cook food faster than stone pots..."
The more Hu Jiao listened, the brighter his eyes became, and he nodded continuously.
What the Cloud Priest said = what the Cloud Priest used = what the Beast God used.
When Hu Jiao thought about using things that the Beast God had used, he couldn't suppress his excitement.
In the next few days, Hu Jiao immersed himself in the work of kneading clay and making pottery.
Thanks to the strong smell of durian shells, the traps are also reporting good news one after another.
Every day whoever is free will check the trap, and today it is Xie Yunsui's turn.
He went out with Xi'er and found that he could gain a lot without cheating.
Today I caught two Moomons that look similar to cows, but the Moomons here look a bit ugly, with huge eyes, overbite mouths, and two horns pointing straight to the sky.
Moomon had a big head, and when it fell into the trap, its head was stuck at the bottom and it couldn't turn over. It died while struggling.
Xier bit its hind legs and pulled it up, then tilted his head and suddenly roared towards the distance.
It was an aggressive tiger roar. Xie Yunsui's heart trembled, and he looked over, only to be met with a pair of pitch-black pupils.
A hawk landed silently on a redwood tree not far away and watched them quietly for an unknown amount of time.
He was huge in size, and even when he stood with his wings folded, he was as tall as an adult demihuman.
The dark wings seemed to blend in with the redwood bark. If Xier hadn't smelled the scent, Xie Yunsui probably wouldn't have noticed it when he looked up.
Is this... an eagle orc from the Black Hawk tribe?
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