Chapter 71: Selecting Soldiers for Salt Exchange
The salt-exchanging team will set off in five days, and she needs to collect enough supplies to exchange salt within these five days.
After curing the disabled orc, Shi Yuan announced the autumn salt exchange in the square.
Even if he didn't announce it, everyone knew it. Everyone is running low on salt.
Changing salt can broaden your horizons and provide exercise. Some soldiers who had never participated in salt exchange work were eager to try and volunteered.
"The one leading the team this time is Long Chen." Shi Yuan asked Long Chen to choose the soldiers to accompany him.
The Dragon God glanced at everyone and said calmly, "Those who are strong and can carry more should step out."
The soldiers looked at each other in confusion. Shouldn't those with strong fighting ability be put forward?
Although they had doubts in their hearts, they still did as they were told.
Some orcs are agile and good at surprise attacks. Their attack power is explosive, and once they attack, one blow is basically fatal, but they cannot fight for a long time. Their beast form is also relatively small, so they are not very strong.
But they also stood up. Changing salt in autumn is much more dangerous than during the Spring Festival, and the number of people going will only increase, not decrease. They are very confident that they will be selected.
"You guys, go back." Long Chen poured a basin of cold water on their heads.
"Why?" They were dissatisfied.
Long Chen did not answer directly, but pointed to the altar in the middle of the altar: "Move that stone."
The agile fighter didn't understand, but did it anyway.
The altar was made from a huge piece of stone, large enough to accommodate two burly male orcs. It is no problem for a strength-type warrior to lift it, but it is a little more difficult for an agility-type warrior, but it is not completely impossible to lift it.
"Run around the square." Long Chen said emotionlessly.
It was so hard to even carry him, so he just ran around the square! Are you kidding?
The agile warrior thought that Long Chen was deliberately making things difficult for them, so he put down the altar and angrily scolded Long Chen: "Why don't you let me go?"
"If you want to go with us to exchange salt, carry the altar and run around the square. Anyone who can do it can follow us." After saying this, Long Chen stopped talking.
All the warriors who wanted to go came to challenge, but only twenty succeeded.
Long Chen shook his head. The orcs in his affiliated tribe were really too weak.
But twenty tools are almost enough.
The agile orcs were not convinced. "There are many dangers on the road to exchange salt. We can't just rely on brute force. We still need to cooperate to win."
Long Chen nodded in agreement. "The combination of agility and strength can indeed catch the enemy by surprise. However, there will be no danger as long as I am here. You only need to carry the supplies and the salt when you come back."
Shi Yuan held his forehead in silence. Here it comes again. His habit of bragging has come back again.
I thought he must have his reasons for doing so, but it turned out to be just his conceited nature.
In the end, it was Shi Yuan who stepped forward and picked out ten agile warriors. It was only after Shi Yuan's strong request that Long Chen agreed to take them with him.
Originally, Shi Yuan's plan was to arrange at least sixty warriors to go together for the salt exchange in autumn this time. However, Long Chen refused to agree and insisted that these twenty Barbarian Bulls would be enough. Shi Yuan was about to get angry before he agreed to add ten more agile warriors.
"During the next five days, you will all follow the envoy's arrangements and help her collect supplies to exchange for salt." Shi Yuan said to the people in the tribe again.
The people in the tribe naturally had no objection and nodded to indicate that they would follow orders.
Chu Ange: "The collection team went to pick the peppers. They picked all the red ones and then dried them."
He then took out a few edible mushrooms and matsutake mushrooms and said, "The rest of you, take note of these mushrooms, pick as many as you can, dry them and pack them for me."
Almost everyone in the tribe has smelled the aroma of Chu Ange's fried bacon with matsutake mushrooms. Could it be that she wants to use these things to exchange for salt from the people of the sea tribe?
Although none of them had ever eaten it, they all knew that it was a good thing and that it could be exchanged for a lot of salt, so they all took action without any reservations.
After saying this, he looked at Shi Yuan and said, "Father, pick a strong cow and kill it for me."
Shi Yuan thought she wanted to exchange meat for salt, and advised: "Meat is not good, it will go bad in the hot weather."
Chu Ange: "It won't go bad. Just kill it. I have a way to make it arrive at the beach fragrant and delicious."
Since the task of collecting supplies was given to Chu Ange, Shi Yuan believed that she would definitely have a way, "Okay, I'll go kill the cow now."
"Wait a moment."
"What else?"
"How much salt is left in the tribe?"
Shi Yuan thought for a moment and said, "It can still hold out for two months."
So poor! Chu Ange was in a dilemma, but finally gritted his teeth and said, "Move some space for me."
Shi Yuan: "...How much do you want?"
"Five pounds."
Shi Yuan stood there in a daze, scratching his head.
Seeing him in such a dilemma, Chu Ange asked worriedly, "Can't you move it out?"
"Not really." Shi Yuan hesitated for a long time, "...Five jins, how much is that?"
Chu Ange fell backwards. There is no unit of measurement in the beast world...
She gestured with a bamboo tube, "Five bamboo tubes."
"That's no problem." Shi Yuan took people to kill the cow.
Long Chen approached her and said, "If you want a cow, I can hunt it for you on the way. There's no need to carry it so far."
Chu Ange looked at him with a smile, "I want to make beef jerky, but I really can't make it on the road."
“What is beef jerky?”
"You'll know when the time comes. Let's go back and prepare the spices." Chu Ange playfully pushed Long Chen from behind.
"It's a pity that I have so many chili peppers, peppercorns and spices. I had been planning to keep them for myself to eat slowly." After returning to the cave, Chu Ange took out his treasured seasonings.
As soon as he put the animal skin bag containing peppers and spices into Long Chen's hand, he regretted it.
Long Chen just reached out to take it, but the bag touched his hand and was pulled back. "What's wrong?"
"Take it away and let them pound it." Pounding peppers is very spicy, and she didn't want Long Chen to suffer this.
His female was caring about him, and Long Chen felt warm in his heart, "Okay."
So they carried the animal-skin bag to the square again, found an orc who was strong and skillful, handed the animal-skin bag to him, and said, "Grind everything in it into powder, and then give it to me."
"Okay, Your Excellency the Envoy." He felt honored to be able to work for the Envoy and was extremely excited.
Chu Ange said "thank you" and took Long Chen to watch Shi Yuan slaughter a cow.
On the way there, I met some kids from the tribe.
"Mr. Envoy, are you going to watch the killing of the giant-horned bull too?" A child ran to Ange and looked up at her expectantly.
Ange nodded: "Yes."
She saw the child's bare feet... orcs had no concept of wearing shoes.
Some orcs would wrap their feet with animal skins, but the children were almost always barefoot.
"Go tell the people who kill the cows not to damage the cowhide." Ange said to the child.
The child looked at Ange in confusion: "Are you going to use it to make soup, sir? Cow hide soup is not tasty, but it is very filling."
In the past, whether it was animal skins or intestines, as long as they were edible, the orcs would eat them.
Now, the tribe has cultivated land and raised many animals. There is not enough meat to eat, so why would they care about the skin?
Ange shook her head: "I'm not coming here to eat, I want to make shoes for you."
"Shoes?" The child was even more puzzled. Then, he saw the animal-skin shoes on Ange's feet and asked, "Are these the same as the ones worn by the envoy?"
Ange nodded: "Yes."
The child understood and ran away happily: "I will tell them right away."
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