Chapter 32: Labor for Meat
The second day after the Dragon God Festival is a day of rest, with no need for hunting or gathering.
Chu Ange was about to see how Shi Yuan's injury was recovering. When he passed by the activity square, he saw the hunting team resting and the gathering team gathering.
"What is this?" Chu Ange looked at the priest.
"They are going to dig potatoes." The priest was in a particularly good mood. After the Dragon God Festival, his prestige in the tribe skyrocketed.
"The potato stew you invented is so delicious." It's soft, sticky and fragrant. Even he ate several bowls. The fat is chewy and the potatoes are soft.
He just can't chew the lean meat, but the soup from the lean meat melts into the potatoes and it is extremely fragrant.
Yesterday, after the people in the tribe finished eating the meat and potatoes, they used the soup to blanch a lot of plants to eat.
It turns out that grass can be so delicious.
The potatoes were eaten yesterday, so the collection team decided to dig some more today.
"Grand Priest, this potato can be planted." Chu Ange said.
"Grow potatoes?" the priest wondered.
"Well, you don't have to go so far to dig. You can grow them yourself and harvest every two or three months. What's more, the potatoes you grow are big and round." Are they big? Maybe?
But she didn't know how to grow potatoes. She only told the priest to water and weed them regularly, and to catch the insects if they were infested.
At least they should be bigger than the wild ones. The potatoes they dug are quite small.
"Did the Dragon God tell you this?" asked the priest.
No, this is the inheritance of thousands of years of history of the earth.
All Chinese people are descendants of the dragon, so there is nothing wrong with saying that they are members of the Dragon God Cult.
Chu Ange nodded: "Yes."
"Then let's plant potatoes," said the priest.
He believed everything the Dragon God said. After all, she and Long Chen were blessed by the Dragon God during the partner ceremony. The priest believed that these must have been told to her by the Dragon God at that time.
The priest immediately said to the members of the gathering team, "Hand over all the potatoes you have dug, and we will plant them."
"Yes, priest."
Now the priest’s words are the imperial decree. If he says to hand it in, it is handed in. If he says to plant potatoes, potatoes are planted.
The priests must have said this under the instructions of the Dragon God, and they just did as they were told.
There was a large and wide piece of land outside the tribe, surrounded by streams. The priest chose that place to plant potatoes.
The disabled orcs and children who were unable to participate in hunting were called by the priests to open up wasteland and till the land.
They don’t know why they need to plow the soil, and they don’t understand what planting is.
But Chu Ange told them that they could exchange their labor for food and meat.
The disabled orcs were in a frenzy. “Can we really trade our labor for meat?”
Chu Ange looked at the priest, and the priest thought this method was very good.
The disabled orcs were unable to participate in hunting, and the wolves had cut off their share of meat. They had not eaten meat for a long time.
Exchanging labor for meat is giving them a second life.
Although hunting is no longer possible, physical work such as plowing the soil and planting crops is no problem at all.
The priest said, “Of course.”
The tribe leader was in charge of distributing the meat, but now Langli was injured and could no longer serve as the tribe leader, and... he was waiting for Shiyuan's leg to get better.
The disabled orcs were all very active and worked very hard, and the half-grown children also worked very hard.
They had no meat to share today because it was a day off.
But they didn't care, because Shi Yuan gave each of them a lot of meat yesterday, and they still had some meat left over from the tribe's big pot meal yesterday.
When the farming team was preparing to set out to plow the soil, Chu Ange had already arrived at the entrance of Shiyuan's cave.
When she just reached the door, Lang Yi jumped towards her on one leg.
After seeing her coming back alone, Lang Yi asked doubtfully: "Is Long Chen not good to you? Why did you come back so early?"
Chu Ange replied: "Don't let your imagination run wild. I just came back to check on my father's injuries."
Lang Yi said "Oh" and thought to himself, so that's how it is. He had previously thought that she had been wronged right after getting married and ran back home.
"If he bullies you, you must tell me." Lang Yi said firmly.
"But can you beat him?" Chu Ange asked him with a smile.
Lang Yi replied without flinching, "So what if I can't win? Should I just stop fighting if I can't win?"
Chu Ange was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this child is so cute!
Just because his father saved him from the mutated saber-toothed tiger when he was most lonely and helpless, he regarded their family as his saviors.
Even when facing a powerful opponent like Long Chen, knowing that he couldn't beat him, he was still willing to stand up for her.
This sincere emotion made Chu Ange feel warm in his heart.
"It's amazing that you can walk on one leg now." Chu Ange praised sincerely.
Lang Yi raised his head proudly and said, "Who am I? I'm a warrior who has been participating in hunting since I was thirteen years old. It's just a leg. It can't be a problem for me."
"Yes, yes, you are the best." Chu Ange said.
The orcs' recovery ability is really strong. In just a few days, although Lang Yi's leg has not healed, he can already walk on one leg freely.
When other children were still playing in the mud, he had already joined the hunting team to carry out dangerous hunting operations. Even after having one of his legs bitten off by a wild beast, he was still able to stay alive optimistically and positively.
Other orcs who lost a leg would think that they were ominous orcs abandoned by the Dragon God and might have given up on themselves.
However, he learned to walk on one leg in a very short time.
Chu Ange praised him for being so capable and expressed his genuine admiration for him.
When she examined Shi Yuan's leg, she once again sighed from the bottom of her heart that the orcs' recovery ability was really too strong.
In just one night, Shi Yuan's bones had healed and grown automatically.
I used my mental power to heal him again. With the help of mental power, he will recover faster.
Everyone in the tribe was hoping that Shi Yuan's leg would get better soon.
She told Shi Yuan that the tribe was going to plant potatoes. Judging from the priest's promise that the people in the tribe could exchange their labor for meat, the priest should be planning something.
Shi Yuan probably understood the priest's intention, "I will get better soon."
"Sister, can Uncle Yuan's leg... really recover?" There was no worry in Lang Yi's eyes, only expectation and a hint of... unattainable longing.
Chu Ange nodded: "Of course."
Lang Yi smiled, then lowered his head to look at his broken leg.
Chu Ange understood what he meant instantly, but there were no prosthetic limbs here and she didn’t know how to make them, so she couldn’t give him any hope.
"Xiaoyi, sister..."
"Sister, I'm fine." Lang Yi saw Chu Ange's embarrassment and said with a smile: "I'm fine, I just hope Uncle Yuan can get better soon."
If Uncle Yuan could become the patriarch of the tribe, tragedies like his would definitely not happen again in the future.
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