For the next period of time, Lin Shanyue and her clansmen settled down in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.
At first, the humans were a little worried, but as the blizzards came one after another, the orcs brought them food and clothing without fail, and even brought a kind of combustible stone.
Although it wasn't much, we could occasionally light a fire during heavy snow, which was like living in paradise.
Even among humans, they conserve firewood during the snowy season, using it only when absolutely necessary.
The group completely lowered their guard against the beastmen.
Putting everything else aside, these few days are a life they might not be able to live in a human tribe for a lifetime.
Moreover, after getting to know them, they found that these beastmen, apart from being tall and looking fierce, were not actually fierce at all, and were not the beastmen they had imagined who would kill and set fires at the drop of a hat.
On the contrary, most of these beastmen were honest and simple. Knowing that they could exchange salt sand and that they had crossed the snow-capped mountains to get here, they took good care of them.
The group felt that the beastmen were looking at them as if they were cubs.
Orcs would often come to the vicinity to spy on them.
Over time, they became acquainted with the beastmen and even talked about human and beastmen matters.
Lin Shanyue also lived with her tribesmen and never left the cave again. She knew that although the beastmen treated them very well, if she ran around, she would cause them trouble.
So they behaved themselves to put the orcs at ease.
Although she never went out, strange things were often brought in.
For example, something that you wear on your hands, with soft down inside, but the outside won't get wet even if it gets wet.
There are also curved sticks with soft, round pouches at both ends. When clipped to the head, they can just cover both ears, so even in a cold wind, the ears won't get cold at all.
Such as these.
Lin Shanyue rested in the cave, and the frostbite on her hands, ears, and body improved considerably.
She silently counted down the days until the snow season ended.
With blizzards blocking the mountains, more and more orcs are hiding in caves.
However, instead of curling up to sleep, they dug cellars and cultivated mushrooms under Su Guodong's leadership.
Since it was only in the experimental stage, Su Tang learned some knowledge about mushrooms from Su Guodong and then found two mushrooms with shorter growth cycles in her space: straw mushrooms and chicken leg mushrooms.
Straw mushrooms, also known as orchid mushrooms, are cultivated to be robust and white, with light gray caps.
Straw mushrooms are rich in nutrients and have a delicious flavor. From sowing to fruiting, it only takes seven to twelve days, and the total cultivation cycle is only thirty days.
Chicken leg mushrooms, as the name suggests, not only resemble chicken legs in shape, but also have a texture similar to shredded chicken, although they do not taste like chicken.
This has a shorter growth cycle, producing mushrooms in six days and ready for harvesting in ten days.
Su Tang provided straw mushrooms and chicken leg mushrooms, and Su Guodong couldn't wait to have the orcs sent by Hu Shen to learn dig a cellar and cultivate a batch.
Ten days later, the first batch of chicken leg mushrooms was harvested as scheduled.
Due to the temperature, Su Guodong was not satisfied with the yield of mushrooms, so he made some adjustments and cultivated two more batches.
By the time the straw mushrooms are harvested, the yield of chicken leg mushrooms has already quadrupled.
Su Guodong was finally satisfied and proceeded to prepare the same dish of stir-fried straw mushrooms.
The orcs who first learned how to cultivate mushrooms then taught the other orcs. When the orcs heard that they could grow food, and that every orc willing to learn could also receive coal, everyone in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain was eager to learn and compete for a spot.
For a time, a craze for cultivating mushrooms swept across the entire Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.
Su Guodong, however, was not satisfied with just these two types of mushrooms. Once he no longer needed to care for the straw mushrooms and chicken leg mushrooms, he took several other kinds of mushrooms from Su Tang and began cultivating them in the cellar with great enthusiasm.
Lin Xia also enjoyed going from house to house every day, teaching the animals how to process and store mushrooms and various foods.
Su Tang ran back and forth, finding sheepskin in Hu Shen's small storeroom to make scrolls, and using charcoal pencils to write down the two elders' recipes and key points one by one.
These things didn't exist on the ancient continent, and she wanted to preserve them all. For civilization to continue, oral tradition alone wasn't enough.
As for the problem of the orcs being illiterate, she had thought it through these past few days and decided to start by teaching the people around her.
"Sister, what are you drawing? I don't understand." Xiao Fu, who was brought to her side, looked bewildered.
"You'll understand this once you learn it," Su Tang said with a mysterious smile.
She kept Xiao Fu by her side every day, writing on scrolls and teaching Xiao Fu pinyin, so that he could recognize a few characters each day.
Xiao Fu was always in a daze, vaguely memorizing the strange symbols his older sister drew. Although he didn't know what they were for, he was very obedient.
He'll memorize it as long as his older sister tells him to, because she'll never harm him.
After a while, I learned to recognize over a hundred characters.
That day, with the whole family out, Su Tang and Xiao Fu were at home writing scrolls and learning to read when Ying Liuer rushed back in a hurry.
"Ah Tang, something bad has happened. There's an orc down the mountain who says that mushrooms can't be grown at all. He says none of the mushrooms he's grown have produced any fruit. All the mushrooms that other orcs grew before were fake. After hearing this, many orcs have stopped going to get mushroom seeds."
Orcs are not very receptive to new things; they will only be willing to do something if they see positive results.
"Don't worry, where are the orcs?" Su Tang poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Ying Liuer, holding her hand which was icy cold from being outside, and asked.
Father has already taught several groups of orcs how to grow mushrooms, so the technique should be quite advanced. How come there are still orcs who can't grow them?
"I had Daqing bring him back from outside. You can ask him about it later, Atang, and see if he deliberately caused trouble for you." Ying Liuer drank the hot water in one gulp and said indignantly.
As soon as Su Tang stepped outside, she saw a middle-aged orc with a bruised and swollen face being escorted by Da Qing.
"I really didn't lie, I just couldn't grow the mushrooms, I didn't do it on purpose..."
Upon seeing Su Tang, the orc began to wail and howl.
"What's going on...?"
Su Tang looked at Ying Liuer with suspicion. The latter scratched her ear and whispered, "I just saw him slandering you and Uncle, and I couldn't control myself. I told Da Qing to shut him up, and that's it. I didn't beat him too badly, really!"
When Ying Liu'er heard that some orcs were saying bad things about Su Tang's family, she couldn't help but get into a mixed doubles fight with Da Qing.
Su Tang rubbed her forehead and said to Da Qing, who had almost dislocated the other man's arm, "Let him go first."
Seeing that the orc's hands and feet were still covered in dirt, Su Tang asked, "How did you grow the mushrooms? Can you tell me? I'll see what went wrong."
The middle-aged orc no longer concealed anything and told the whole story:
"I... I just buried the mushroom spawn in the soil and planted it. Didn't they say that if you buried it, you could grow something to eat?"
"You planted it in the ground?"
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